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TIL Joe Metheny, serial only cooked his victims to eat himself, he also made burgers with their remains and sold them to unsuspecting customers from a roadside food stand.

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8eaKb TIL about billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who has given away more than $8 billion and now lives in a rented apartment with a remaining balance of $2 million.
Eg8Wp TIL Robin Williams final film was directed by the former lead singer of Gutterboy, whom Geffen Records signed to a $1 million record deal in 1989, an unheard-of sum at the time. The band was dropped after its debut and was dubbed one of the most "successful" unsuccessful bands in rock history.
e0YbJ TIL Chiquita, the banana company, orchestrated and paid for a massacre known as the "Banana Massacre" in Colombia in 1928
N7DQM TIL the inventor of the bra, Caresse Crosby, came up with the idea because she didn’t want to wear a corset to a dance at age 19. She also had a dog named Clytoris.
PR9O TIL that twins, at a very young age, have the potential to develop their own unique language that they use to communicate only with each other.