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TIL the only confirmed case of poisoned Halloween candy was in 1974 when Ronald O'Bryan murdered his son Timothy by giving him pixie sticks laced with cyanide to collect insurance money

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pY09Q TIL about primordial black holes (PBHs), hypothesized to have formed in the early universe; some small extra-dense spots collapsed into black holes as everything expanded and cooled down. It's also been hypothesized that dark matter, which constitutes 85% of the universe's mass, is made up of PBHs.
6ELAJ TIL of super volcanos, including the one in Yosemite National Park. These types are different from regular volcanos because they don’t have the typical steep sides and are instead depressions in the ground. They are thousands of times larger than any other volcanic eruption.
P96Z TIL that in 1959 a pilot ejected from his plane directly into a violent thunder cloud. The storm winds kept him aloft for 40 minutes, pelting him with hailstones and so much rain that at times he had to hold his breath to keep from drowning in mid-air.
81lX TIL during 1936 Berlin Olympic games, the Nazis ridiculed the US for relying on “non-human black auxiliaries.” American black athlete Jesse Owens went on to win 4 gold medals and beat a German at Long Jump in front of Hitler. Four years after Owens’ death, a street in Berlin was renamed after him.
exKb TIL Hosts of British show Top Gear once tried to drive through Alabama with slogans like ‘Nascar Sucks’ and 'Man-Love rules’ painted to their cars. This offended the locals and they were chased out of town..