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TIL at age 14 Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a boy who died shortly after

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e0kKb TIL in 2008, a British man was found dead at his apartment- he had been decapitated by a chainsaw. He was the last tenant in a block of flats which had been cleared for redevelopment. Police said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".
X0kLX TIL Of pancake syndrome, an illness derived from eating contaminated pancakes. Illness comes from having an allergic reaction to eating flour containing dust mites.
e0exL TIL that owls have serrations on the edge of their flight feathers, allowing an owl's flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, for which silence has no evolutionary advantage, lack this adaptation.
MmZ0 TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychologyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.
69LnZ TIL that Welsh boxer Tommy Farr, challenged Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship and gave Louis such hell, that the American home crowd booed when Louis was given the win.