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TIL During the New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots a prisoners head exploded after a blow torch was used to burn out his eyes

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xyw0 TIL an African man killed a lion with his bare hands before bleeding out and dying at a hospital after being attacked by hyenas
1axgX TIL British aristocrats often went broke after royal visits. Queen Elizabeth I spent her holydays at her titled noblemen's country estates. The problem was that Tudor monarchs didn’t just travel alone and hosts had to find housing, food and entertainment for over 300 people, often at short notice.
oWNR TIL Google’s first ever tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” which when converted from binary means, “I’m feeling lucky”.
mV4M TIL in 1964, a man photographing his daughter in a marsh captured what appears to be an astronaut standing behind her; he claims no one else was present in the shot other than the girl
jNGvE TIL of a pedophile who was arrested after setting his phone to the largest possible font and then sending text messages about molesting children. He did this while on a crowded airplane.