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TIL people struggled to open milk cartons in the 70’s

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Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
9YXEm TIL Franziska Donner, the First Lady of the Republic of Korea from 1948 until 1960, was Austrian. She met Syngman Rhee at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Despite a significant gap in age and backgrounds, as well as familial opposition on her part, they were married the following year in New York
DXrv TIL: Cars with gull wing or scissor doors often have explosive bolts on the door hinges that fire if the car rolls over, allowing occupants to escape.
GARB7 TIL that Mighty No. 9 contains the longest closing credits sequence of any piece of media in history, being 3 hours 48 minutes in length.
mxGZE TIL of the 2020 Chernobyl exclusion wildfires that spread radiation