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TIL For decades sideshow performers showcased a real deceased man in their show "The Outlaw Who Would Never Be Captured Alive". The man in question was killed in a shootout in 1911. He was displayed in this show until 1976 when he was rediscovered, and finally laid to rest in 1977.

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rNQpx TIL after a 2021 incident at Topgolf in which a man suffered a traumatic spinal injury (and died a month later) after he tumbled over the safety netting of the top floor of a driving range, a policy was implemented requiring guests who pushed people onto the safety netting to be immediately removed.
0d4wv TIL that between 2016 and 2019, there was not a single bookstore in the Bronx. Even today there is only one in the entire borough of 1.5 million people.
lQlG TIL There is a town in Michigan called Hell and it is for sale for $999,666.
Y795Z TIL that from 2003 to 2005, Dell sold over 11 million computers with leaky capacitors, with documents indicating that Dell was aware they were almost certain to fail. At one point, 1,000 computers that Dell delivered to the law firm that was defending it in a related lawsuit started failing.
XYYR TIL that in 1961, a B-52 bomber broke apart over North Carolina and two nuclear bombs fell to the ground. One was was armed and the second has yet to be recovered.