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TIL that The Specials singer Terry Hall was abducted by a paedophile ring in France when he was 12 years old

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a5XA TIL that a guy named Seth Putnam wrote a song about how being in a coma was stupid, and soon after went into a coma himself. After he awoke, when asked how it felt to be in a coma he said, “It was just as f*cking stupid as I wrote about in my song”.
roWw TIL that, in medieval Europe, scales were used to weigh suspected witches to determine whether or not they should be burned at the stake
v9w4 TIL that strawberries and cream oatmeal doesn’t have real dried strawberries…they are apple pieces dyed and flavored to taste like strawberries. The blueberries and cream are dyed and flavored figs.
aDnA TIL that Kim Jong-un was not supposed to succeed his father, Kim Jong-il. The man that was supposed to succeed Kim Jong-il lost his chance after trying to enter Japan to go to Disneyland.
Yp8gG TIL In the 1990s, an issue of the popular The Amazing Spider-Man that sold around 70,000 would be considered a failure. These days, what counts as a successful superhero book is anything that can sell a regular 40-60,000 copies. Most sell quite a bit less.