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TIL that a man tried to make his suicide look like murder by tying the gun to helium balloons

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0wJJv TIL in 1976 a woman sued Disney for $150,000 in damages, claiming one of the Three Little Pigs fondled her at "It's a Small World" and that she gained 50 lbs (23 kg) as a result. The case was dropped when the costume was found to have "inoperable stub arms," making said fondling impossible.
780p TIL in 1971, Ted Bundy worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline crisis center.
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”
4XpGX TIL About Leslie 'Bull' Alan who carried twelve men to safety from Mount Tambu described as 'a gigantic man striding up Mount Tambu like he was on a Sunday jaunt'
JlJk TIL that two warring nations in Africa temporarily stopped fighting because Pele was playing nearby and both sides wanted to go see him