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TIL that Sheikh Hasina, PM of Bangladesh, has survived ~19 assassination attempts on her life

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evx5 TIL that the English language evolves so rapidly in the United States that is possible to roughly estimate one’s age simply based on whether they say “on accident” or “by accident”
MeMp0 TIL: Rik Mayall was cast as Peeves in the first Harry Potter film but his scenes were cut because the child actors were always laughing too hard in the background.
LQdx9 TIL that the inventor of the Atkins diet, Dr. Atkins, did not die from a heart disease but in fact died from complications following a head injury on April 17, 2003, after falling on a New York sidewalk.
pYWLe TIL W. E. B. Du Bois attended the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany, where he met many well-known social scientists, among them, Max Weber. He would later return to Harvard University (where he already earned his bachelor's in 1890) and earn his PhD in 1895.
loeLa TIL that after a woman murdered her husband and attempted suicide, their pet parrot who was the sole witness began repeating what's thought to have been their last conversation, including the words: "Don't shoot!"