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Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.

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wDb1 TIL, after hitting her head as a toddler, a woman claimed to have unlocked memories from a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt. She then went on to made great contributions to Egyptology, even successfully predicting the locations of paintings in complete darkness.
EEvV TIL the National Radio Quiet Zone is a 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia & Virginia, where Cell Phone service, Wi-Fi, and almost every radio station are BANNED
nexnW TIL on May 24, 1996, a drive-in theater in Canada was destroyed by a tornado when the theater was scheduled to show the 1996 disaster movie ‘Twister’. In ‘Twister,’ a scene parallels the exact event of the theater destruction by a tornado during a showing of ‘The Shining.’
ZpdoR TIL That Alawites, a branch of Shia Islam present in Syria, believe that humans were once stars in the firmament that were casted out of it due to divine punishment and have to go through several reincarnations before they can return to the sky
KGmB TIL that George Lucas sold what would become Pixar to Steve Jobs for $5 million in 1979. When Disney bought Pixar, Jobs became the largest single shareholder of Disney. When Disney bought Lucasfilm of 2012, Lucas became the 2nd largest shareholder.