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TIL a teenager working at a haunted hayride felt awkward jumping out of the woods to scare people, so he took the place of a skeleton hanging by a noose in a tree. However, when he began struggling to remove the rope from his neck, everyone watching thought it was part of the act & watched him die.

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XjjQ TIL Kellogg’s Raisin Brain has more sugar than Frosted Flakes
woPJJ TIL that Dalai Lama, spiritual figure of Tibetan Buddhism, is a prominent watch collector with his most valuable watchpiece being the Patek Philippe Ref. 658. He received it when he was 8 years old.
eP96 TIL in 2005, the British Medical Journal published a study to investigate the loss of workplace teaspoons
wVYJ TIL that there is an alleged “chapstick conspiracy” and a movement to raise public awareness about the dangers of lib balm addiction
EgyxP TIL of Jean-Claude Touche, an up-and-coming French composer in the 1940's. He was fatally wounded at the age of 18 on August 25, 1944, the final day of the Liberation of Paris, while trying to move a wounded person to safety.