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TIL DJ Qualls, star of Road Trip (2000) and The New Guy (2002), was a model in ad campaigns for both Prada and Calvin Klein

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jNGLQ TIL of the tallest solider of all time, Väinö Myllyrinne. While he served for the Viipuri Heavy Artillery he was (7ft 3in) tall. Later in his life he had anothe growth spurt and he ended up being (8ft 3in) tall. On top of all that he was a wrestler, in a circus, and had GIANT hands.
dDZed TIL we thought we knew the basic facts about Charles Manson
XExZX TIL on the 1st of March in 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her husband then disemboweled and carved up his body. She proceeded to cook his head in a stew and roasted his buttocks in the oven with vegetables. They were then served as steaks with notes addressed to his son and daughter.
WkrQX TIL that during the Victorian era, a newly developed feeding bottle for infants was introduced. Infant moṛtality rates due to these bottles were shocking– only 2 out of 10 infants lived to their 2nd birthday, but parents continued to buy and use them and they earned the name as murdeṛ bottles.
gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)