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DwkD TIL North Korea operates a chain of restaurants throughout the world, and it’s a source of desperately needed foreign currency
nW4o7 TIL serial killer John Wayne Gacy lived and worked at a mortuary in Las Vegas years before committing murder. While employed at the mortuary, Gacy would talk to the corpses, take off their clothes, and on one occasion he slept in a coffin with a dead teenage boy.
QNQXM TIL Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain
kJkvd TIL Elmer McCurdy (an outlaw) was killed in Oklahoma in 1911. His body was discovered in 1976 by a film crew member in an amusement park, where it was thought to be a wax mannequin.