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TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama.

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9JKp TIL Serial killer Albert Fish would embed needles into his groin and abdomen. After his arrest, x-rays revealed that he had at least 29 needles lodged in his pelvic region. He also hit himself with a nail-studded paddle and inserted wool doused with lighter fluid into his anus and lit it.
byZ4 TIL Norway had to close a tunnel because it was full of burning cheese.
YvyZ TIL that White wife/Black husband marriages are twice as likely to divorce by the 10th year of marriage compared to White/White couples, however, with Black wife/White husband marriages, divorce by the 10th year of marriage is 44% less likely than among White/White unions
69GEJ TIL that China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrated mid air because of a faulty maintenance done 22 years earlier.
m1JxE TIL about Vis-O-Matic the pre-internet online shopping service of the 1950s