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TIL that Jack Black's mom was a famous satellite engineer who worked on the Minuteman Missile and Hubble Space telescope project

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l7xLG TIL: Saad Abe was a famous Geisha, who after 2+ hours of intimacy and erotic choking, killed her lover, cut off his penis and balls and began carrying them around until her arrest and practiced necrophilia as she stated she loved him. The judge in the case admitted to being aroused by the story.
PBrg TIL there are documented chimpanzee wars
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
QBZE TIL that since Paul G. Lind of Portland, Oregon, loved to play Scrabble so much, his family and friends decided to have a Scrabble-themed tombstone made just for him when he died in 2005.
b69xN TIL about the Gatun Dam. It was built to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal and was the largest damn in the world at the time.