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TIL of the boomslang snake in Africa. It’s venom can cause the victim to bleed to death from every orifice.

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QWmk TIL that Ozzy Osbourne has survived decades of drug and alcohol abuse because he has several genetic mutations “we’ve never seen before” that help him party hard.
D1X8p TIL, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, the songwriters of the song "Without You" (hit singles for Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey) both committed suicide. Ham's suicide was because of financial troubles and Evans' suicide was because of a dispute over songwriting royalties for this song.
bPKN TIL Margaret Garner, a slave that escaped to Cincinatti, killed her own daughter with a butcher knife, wounded her other children, and tried to commit suicide rather when government officials tried to arrest her to return them to slavery
8DQa TIL that the world record for the most consecutive push ups (i.e. nonstop) by a man was 10,507 reps in 1980 and 302 reps by a woman in 2014
ejBn TIL before becoming host of the bizarre foods series, Andrew Zimmern was homeless, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and would steal to support his habit.