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TIL of Dan and Fran Keller, an innocent couple recently released from prison after 20 years, who were convicted, by pseudo psychotherapists and Christians, of abusing and dismembering children in Satanic Rituals

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16r1V TIL: We know exactly who was the first person to LOL: some guy from Canada called Wayne Pearson
16JPX TIL about Robert Williams - His death, although an industrial accident, is considered to be the first known instance of a human to be killed by a robot.
VMAdQ TIL while shooting for Deliverance (1972), Burt Reynolds insisted on doing a stunt by himself instead of a dummy. During the stunt, he got injured and his clothes came off. Waking up in hospital, he asked the director what it looked like, who said, "It looked like a dummy falling over a waterfall.'
oBv4A TIL in 2016 there was an anthrax outbreak in western Siberia. The source was found to be a thawed 75-year-old reindeer carcass containing the spores.
yMPV TIL of a statistician who discovered the outside of a particular scratch-off lottery game was non random. He could correctly predict a winning ticket 90% of the time.