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MepM8 TIL about The Man Who Killed Jeffrey Dahmer. Christopher Scarver beat Jeff and another inmate to death. NSFW
0wQv TIL that Richard Branson once engineered a hoax involving a hot air balloon designed to look like a glowing UFO, piloted by a silver suited midget.
690A8 TIL the odds of dying for a 78 year old man, irrespective of personal health, is 1 in 19. By age 83 those odds are 1 in 12.
QJxke TIL that statistical analysis of 6619 generals found that Napoleon Bonaparte had a Wins Above Replacement score (a statistical measure originating from baseball which determines a player's importance to victory) that was 23 standard deviations above the average general.
X1W6 TIL Medical doctor Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand every day for sixty years, but he did not crack the knuckles of his right hand. No arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand, and he was awarded 2009’s Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine