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TIL that David Allan Coe, a famous country music singer, is a retired member of the Outlaws MC Louisville, Kentucky chapter.

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LkNNp TIL of Mary Blagg--an early 20th-century astronomer who pioneered the field of lunar nomenclature. She was tasked with naming every discernible feature on the moon, leading her to create a list detailing thousands upon thousands of craters, fissures, and gullies along its surface.
6EQmm TIL that in 2008, Tim McLean was beheaded and cannibalised while riding a bus in Canada. The perpetrator, Vince Li, spent seven years in mental hospital, and was released in 2015, to a group home. He was granted a discharge in 2017. One of the first officers on the scene later committed suicide.
0dpv TIL Cilantro haters can’t smell the same scent cilantro lovers do, from the herb. Instead they taste unsaturated aldehydes which are present.
J1dlm TIL of Walter Summerford, a man who was struck by lightning 3 consecutive times after a period of 6 years each. Even after his death, his grave was struck by lightning.
4Xr9N TIL how Roald Dahl's name is actually pronounced. 'Roo-ahl', not 'r-ohl-d' or 'r-ahl-d'