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TIL that the annual New Year’s Polar Bear Swim started in Vancouver, Canada in 1920

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jKZn TIL that Australian woman, Katherine Knight, stabbed her partner, Then proceeded to skin his body, put his head in a pot, and attempted to feed his flesh to his two children. The coroner also stated, that he was so perfectly skinned, that they were able to stitch the skin back onto his skinless body
YdnW TIL McDonalds makes a majority of its money by collecting rent.
QJ6Q6 TIL in 1991, comic book writer Fabian Nicieza released a series called NFL SuperPro, starring an ex-NFL player superhero, with the main villain being an assassin called Instant Replay. Nicieza later revealed that his sole motivation for writing the series was getting free New York Jets tickets
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
NXXVP TIL that the central portion of the Jewish bar mitzvah ceremony, reading from the Torah scroll, dates back only to the 18th and 19th century, although the ceremony has ancient roots and the first use of the term was in the 15th century