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TIL: Spain is the world's second largest exporter of bricks

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DQwJJ TIL only 8 people have been killed by bears in Yellowstone national park, out of 118 million visitors. Other deaths include drowning (125 incidents) and burns (after falling into hot springs, 23 incidents)
DQaBP TIL Ohio’s state flag is the only non-rectangular flag of all the U.S. states.
0vpA TIL that the Etoro people of New Guinea believe that, in order to attain manhood, a boy must fellate a tribal elder and swallow his semen, daily, from the age of 12 to 17. The nearby Kaluli tribe considers the practice barbaric: they believe the semen of the elder must pass through the boy’s anus.
XEOYE TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation
Eg6MW Today I learned Heath Ledger Was Originally Attached To Direct ’The Queen’s Gambit’ and strongly consider Elliott (Ellen at the time) Page for the lead.