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TIL about Brandon Rhode, a man on death row who attempted suicide by cutting his throat before his execution date. Following the attempt, he was rushed to a local hospital where he was stabilized and saved. He was then executed a few days later.

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QJ5yM Today I learned that Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart was actually originally written for a Broadway musical about vampires in love, which was never made (unfortunately!).
E1Anw TIL a person survived 17 days under the rubble of department store collapse in South Korea that killed 500 people.
p88x4 TIL that last year in 2016, the first female South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office after leaked information gave evidence Park was being controlled by a shamanistic cult
vbYj TIL Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was created in early 1994 by three Albright College students after watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm. The three inventors released a book on the subject, with an introduction written by Bacon.
VZDB TIL the stuff in between the wafers of a Kit-Kat is mashed up Kit-Kats.