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TIL about the "Taco Bell Strangler"

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ANgYx TIL of the practice of Muerto Parado. After you're dead they embalm, dress and pose you doing the thing you enjoyed when you were alive. This gentlemen was posed playing video games surrounded by snacks, which he loved doing in life.
0ZvR TIL That in 1974 a US Army Private stole a helicopter and landed it at the White House…Twice.
wQmo TIL We would only need to cover a very small fraction of the earths surface with solar panels to power the world
kJOye TIL that Ketogenic diets are a viable treatment option for epilepsy that has not responded to multiple antiepileptic drugs (refractory seizures). It is also under investigation for utility in Alzheimer's.
rNmX4 TIL Pandora's box was actually a storage jar rather than a literal box. The Greek word pithos was mistranslated as "box" in sixteenth century translations of the tale and 'Pandora's box' stuck