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TIL starving to death can be ‘peaceful’ and 'euphoric’

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16G87 TIL Anissa Weier, one of the Slenderman Stabbers was released from a mental hospital after serving 7yrs for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Her accomplice, Morgan Geyser withdrew her request for early release. Weier was sentenced to up to 25yrs in a psychiatric hospital.
kJl14 TIL: The British lost the cure for scurvy and had to rediscover it
4k6vw TIL that beans are banned in Spacecraft because they can produce "1-3 cups of flatus" in an environment where there are no windows
rNdxw TIL that during the first moon landing, according to the schedule, the astronauts were SUPPOSED to sleep for a few hours first, keeping the entire world waiting, but they could not sleep and asked to go ahead of schedule and leave the lander early.
5YG5B TIL the first Legoland theme park built outside of Europe was in Carlsbad, California.