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TIL Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife was arrested after she pulled a gun out of her vagina and threatened her boyfriend with it after a dispute about space aliens.

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Wkad4 TIL Dave Grohl wrote and recorded an entire album by himself, singing and playing each instrument in the studio. He chose the name Foo Fighters to hide his identity. After a record label picked it up he needed to recruit members to perform the songs live. Thus the Foo Fighters were created.
MjlB TIL: The US Airways employee who gave the ticket to 9/11 terrorist Mohammed Atta said he thought Atta looked like a terrorist but told himself he was just being racist. When the planes later hit the WTC his first reaction was “I was right, this guy was a terrorist”.
v1QAD TIL of Paul Walker an American actor who was famous for his role as an illegal street car racer in the movie franchise Fast and Furious. In 2013 he ended up dying in a fiery car crash after having gone twice the posted speed limit in an area known for drifting cars.
LQok9 TIL of “Raining Blobs in Oakville,”a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These blobs contained human white blood cells and made people ill, though their origin remains a mystery.
JYaRl TIL the largest tumor successfully removed from a human patient was a multicystic mass of the right ovary weighing 303 lbs (137.6 kg). The 6-hour operation took place in 1991 at Stanford University Hospital where the patient lay on her side, so as not to be crushed by the 3-ft diameter growth.