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TIL In 2008 a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.

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yQdav TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.
e5jk TIL that “Weird” Al Yankovic is a Christian alcohol-shunning vegan who religious beliefs is why he doesn’t use profanity but doesn’t vocalise his beliefs because they are entirely personal
vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
8WJ8 TIL the letter X in “Xmas” is actually the Greek letter “Chi”, which is the Greek abbreviation of the word “Christ”.
Wao TIL that Fox Studio passed on the ‘Watchmen’ movie because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years”