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TIL that Taco Bell once tried to open a hotel, and it sold out in 2 minutes.

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X0OY6 Today I learned Marine invertebrates that occur at the poles in really cold water tend to have much larger body sizes than their relatives that live elsewhere
OojjY TIL that a man choked to death after winning a cockroach-eating contest. In Florida. For a snake.
kXWm TIL The original creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, was also friends with L. Ron Hubbard, the creator of Scientology, and boasted that he, too, could have started his own religion if he wanted to.
a6mL TIL- Killer Peter Kurten, the so-called Vampire of Dusseldorf asked the prison psychiatrist shortly before he was executed by guillotine, : “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off will I still be able to hear; at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?”
NpdP TIL: Dorothy Kilgallen died under mysterious circumstances in 1965. She started reporting on UFOs in the 50’s, was extremely critical of the US government, and interviewed Jack Ruby in private, claiming to be “about to blow the JFK case sky high.”