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TIL Jeffrey Dahmer was inspired by the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He wanted to build a “temple” out of his victims’ skulls where he could sit and absorb a “spiritural force or power”

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78Z5X TIL the white gooey meat inside the coconut is called the endosperm
LNM9 TIL that on the set of Rocky IV, Lundgren (Ivan Drago) punched Sylvester Stallone so hard that he had to be sent to the hospital, where they thought he had been hit by a car.
XE8K8 TIL that the human brain has a special region within its visual processing system which is uniquely fearful of only snakes.
woZP7 TIL that the Niesen Stairway (service stairway for Niesenbahn funicular) is the longest staircase in the world with 11,674 steps. It is located on Mt. Niesen in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps.
BaDW TIL that the term ‘panther’ refers to a melanistic jaguar or leopard, and is NOT a separate species.