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TIL the heiress to the Folgers Coffee fortune was killed in the Manson Family killings

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JeEV TIL in 2011, a Siberian girl went hiking with her boyfriend and they were both eaten alive by bears. She survived long enough to call her mom and say goodbye, only for the bear to bring the cubs back and finish her off.
xVZw7 TIL that My Pillow had its BBB accreditation revoked in 2017 due to deceptive advertising practices
4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
ADZm7 TIL Elvis Presley met with Richard Nixon. He wanted to get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs because with it “he [believed he] could legally enter any country... carrying any drugs he wished.” After denouncing America's drug culture to the President, the King got his wish.
p8p7G TIL about Split-Brain-Patients, who have their brain hemispheres disconnected. While those "do not show any significant difference in function" from healthy persons, you can prove with specific experiments that there are two brains working independently without recognizing each other