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TIL the 1993 World Trade Bomber, the Unabomber, and the Boston Marathon Bomber are all in the same Super Maximum Prison in Florence, CO.

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7rPOP TIL That the highest recorded blood alcohol content ever recorded was a polish man who had a BAC of 1.48. He got in a car crash but likely survived due to his drunkenness but later died due to the injuries of the crash
x6LGD TIL that BBC News correspondent Jane Stanley mistakingly announced the collapse of building 7 of World Trade Center live on air while it was still visibly standing behind her, the building did not collapsed until 20 minutes later, it was also reported by the Reuters and CNN too mistakingly
Y7xaG TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers
4XgLb TIL that the egg cells we all started as originally formed in our grandmother, not our mother. Basically, we all started out as the deepest layer of a multi-generational turducken.
GYo1 TIL In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discoverd drifting off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.