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TIL in 2001 Armin Meiwes put up an ad asking for "a young well-built man, who wanted to be eaten". a man responed to his ad and agreed to be eaten. They met, and Meiwes started mutilating and eating him alive while the victim was reading a star trek novel

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gWYX TIL that thirteenth century emperor Frederick II attempted to raise children without human contact to see if they developed a natural language. The children did not survive.
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e0Wd4 TIL that since 2016, the U.S.'s suicide rate is so high that it has contributed to the CDC's reported drop in American life expectancy
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