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TIL in 2014 a man from Oklahoma City killed his stepfather with an "atomic wedgie" - he stretched his stepdad's waistband over his head and around the neck, leaving ligature marks around his neck and blood splatter in several spots in the room.

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dDVmZ TIL about Charles I. D. Looff, a German manufacturer who built the first carousel on Coney Island, the historic Crescent Park carousel, and the Santa Monica Pier in California
W7gmd TIL that our brain generates more electrical impulses in one day than all the telephones in the world
l5E5 TIL: Composer Arnold Schoenberg had Triskaidekaphobia. He feared the number 13 so much that he called it 12A instead of 13, and when he was 76 (7+6=13) he stayed in bed all day on friday the 13th, to avoid any danger. And died that night.
knXm TIL Social Media Has Overtaken Porn As The #1 Online Activity
dovj TIL as early as 3,400 years ago, ancient Danes were being buried with Egyptian-made jewelry, including beads from the same workshop as King Tut’s death mask. A researcher working on the beads believes that there might be a connection between Egyptian and ancient Nordic religion.