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TIL that something like the Yeti really existed : Gigantopithecus

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oBQ58 TIL Peter Ivers, the artist that wrote and recorded the song "In Heaven" for David Lynch's film "Eraserhead," was bludgeoned to death with a hammer at his home in LA. He was 36 years old. His murder remains unsolved.
woxaP TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth.
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