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TIL Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back.

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618J TIL that on September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed.
RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.
yQk0M TIL that in 1986, a organ transplant aircraft broke down in Fargo resulting in the governor summoning an F-4 Phantom to transport a heart to California for a recipient.
AD76w TIL dying of laughter is an actual cause of death. The last notable case was when a man of died of laughter because his pulse hit an estimated 250-500 bpm while watching 'A Fish Called Wanda'.
OonK1 TIL that the ‘B’ on Auschwitz I’s “arbeit macht frei” sign was placed upside down as a symbol of resistance by the prisoners who were forced to create it. This act went undiscovered by the SS. The inverted ‘B’ is now a reminder to, “never remain indifferent. Indifference kills.”