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TIL After a heart attack, the body increases sleep time in order to limit heart inflammation and damage

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QNgWe TIL parts of Marilyn Manson's first album were re-recorded at the house where the Manson family killed the Tates
woZMY TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.
Yp6kW TIL in Germany in 2001, Armin Meiwes (AKA The Master Butcher) and his volunteer murder victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis. He then killed and ate a large amount of the volunteer’s flesh. His first trial sentence was only 8 yrs 6 mo (later increased to life).
maNE TIL chocolate milk was invented by an Irishman while visiting Jamaica in the 1680s. Locals mixed cocoa with water - which Hans Sloane found nauseating - so instead he mixed it with milk to make it more pleasant. He brought the recipe to England, where it was made and sold by pharmacists as medicine
xdD5 TIL that woolly mammoths still walked the Earth during the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt