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

Read more ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

XvkP TIL that when a word is on the ‘tip of the tongue’, your brain is actually trying to help you by blocking out similar words, but in doing so, blocks the target word.
awdVN TIL the Nazis tried to make a sun gun, or sonnengewehr. They would launch a 100-meter-wide concave mirror into space and use it to reflect sunlight onto the enemy, burning cities, boiling reservoirs and (pretty much) melting people.
J1Mdl TIL about St. James Davis, a NASCAR driver, and how he was attacked by 2 chimpanzees, Buddy and Ollie while visiting his pet chimpanzee in his enclosure." St. James Davis was brutally mauled, resulting in permanent disfigurement and missing extremities."
v1BpK TIL Kevin Conroy (voice actor for Batman) went to Juiliard and was roommates with Robin Williams there
m1jVp TIL People who post their fitness routine on social media are more likely to have psychological problems.