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E1xYo TIL Magnus Carlson played 10 chess games simultaneously with his back turned and won 7 of them
VM0m TIL: Steven Seagal was choked unconscious on a movie set by “Judo” Gene LeBelle, and Seagal shit himself.
QJZoX TIL that the old man on the cross in the music video for “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana had bowel cancer during filming and at one point his stomach burst open, leading to him being taken off set in an ambulance. The band members and the director then sat in silence for an hour.
VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
m1Yox TIL that people pass rectal gases in increased quantities at high altitude, known as high-altitude flatus expulsion (HAFE).