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TIL: headlines that end with a question mark can be answered no: Betteridge’s Law. Any headline with a question mark is usually a BS story.

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Y7O0A TIL in 2016, 19-year-old college student Austin Harrouff walked into a garage and killed two strangers, eating one of the victims' faces. He thought he was “half man, half dog” and being chased by a demon. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity
NXPO1 TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature.
oBNbE TIL Edmund Clint, a child prodigy who in his short life of less than 7 years painted 25,000 paintings.
QNX4a TIL: Some oil wells are drilled to a depth of 3 miles and the predictable total of U.S. oil production in 1944 was 1,601,2500,000 barrels.
AD4Lg TIL that the Nazi Germany Parliament was derisively referred to by Germans as the "the most expensive singing club in Germany", since it couldn't do much other than sing the National Anthem during its sessions.