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TIL a broken heart can actually kill you - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy aka Broken Heart Syndrome

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E1gN7 TIL in 2007 the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force attempted the advertise their upcoming movie by planting Lite Brite devices of one of the shows characters all around Boston. The entire city or Boston went on lockdown thinking the devices were bombs in an attempted terror attack
ne0o TIL that a man was arrested at Best Buy and detained for hours, for trying to pay with $2 bills, because the store employees and cops mistakenly thought they were counterfeit.
gMglX TIL about the Nibiru Cataclysm, a popular conspiracy theory among doomsday groups that the Earth would be hit by a giant asteroid.
V4LB TIL that the widely distributed Sears Roebuck catalog was also used as a popular substitute for toilet paper until it began to be printed on glossy paper (at which point some people wrote to the company to complain).
yQ9lw TIL the SR-71's sonic boom was used to "remind [heads of state] that they were doing things that were counter to US policy."