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TIL about the "Taco Bell Strangler"

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l7kn5 TIL that Caracas is bordered by a massive coastal mountain called El Ávila (Waraira Repano), which rises abruptly from sea level to over 2,700 meters and completely separates the city from the Caribbean Sea.
7Jo7 TIL a “micromort” is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries. For example, going skydiving is 9 micromorts, meaning that there is a 9/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip.
yVO8X TIL that no team has won the World Cup with a foreign coach. Only 2 foreign coaches have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.
ep5YJ TIL of 20-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, who was tortured to death in 2017 by six students at his university after he was accused of stealing from one of them. The students took turns pressing a steam iron against his skin, causing burns over 80% of his body.
vPAP7 TIL about Lionel Crabb, a Royal Navy diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission around a Soviet cruiser in 1956. A headless, handless corpse was discovered over a year later, it has never been conclusively proven to be Crabb's as known scars were absent.