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TIL that Rebecca Burger, a 33 year old fitness blogger, died after a pressurized canister of whipped cream exploded and struck her in the chest

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Bg7wx TIL When President Macias of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in 1979, the army couldn’t find him. He was discovered 2 weeks later by a villager, wandering through the Jungle, alone and delirious with the entire country’s foreign currency reserves in 2 suitcases.
loxPV TIL in 1971 Pink Floyd played a show in London that was so loud it killed all the fish in a lake 100 yards away
OoKjY TIL an University of South Wales study found that unlike Yorkshire accent and Received Pronunciation speakers, those who speak with a Birmingham accent seem less intelligent than people who say nothing.
Xm4X TIL Elizabeth Bathory a.k.a. the Blood Countess is said to have killed and tortured around 650 young girls. She used their blood to bathe in it so she can keep her body forever young. She was never brought to trial.
oBGgR TIL that in the Guinness breweries in Ireland catholic workers were not allowed to obtain management positions until the 1960s