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TIL plans for a Texas art installation that would be left to naturally degrade were re-thought after vandals graffitied the exterior and stole its contents the night it was completed

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VMlWD TIL of Edward Katskee, a scientist who accidentally overdosed on Cocaine after he purposefully injected himself with a large dose of to test how it affected the human body. He attempted to write notes on the walls of his office as he died. They were deemed too illegible to be scientifically useful.
XQW6 TIL: At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it
xV17B TIL the allied forces hired a makeup artist to draw sketches of Hitler in various disguises.
698MZ TIL a criminal named James Allen requested a copy of his deathbed confessions be bound in his skin and given to a man Allen had previously attempted to rob. The family kept it for years, using it to spank their kids and grandkids when the children misbehaved.
9wv5m TIL no child has been poisoned by Halloween candy. Exception, one by a family member.