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TIL: Women are more likely to die a week after their birthdays than in any other week during the year, while men are more likely to die weeks before their birthdays.

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56LR TIL As a form of protest, Afghan women write landays—bawdy or sad poems with 22 syllables that often mock their sexist society.
yvNJ TIL that the Big Ben is the name of the largest of the five bells which hang within the clock and not the name of the landmark clock.
9YjyX TIL that Victoria, Princess Royal attempted to import English style gardens to Prussia, her husband's country, which prompted an "Anglo-Prussian garden war" where the Royal Court fought against Victoria's changes, preferring the Italianate garden style
Y7mvB TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson's pigeons
9Y0VX TIL that "Peacock" is not the name of the bird, but is in fact the term for a male "Peafowl". A female peafowl is called a "Peahen"