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TIL Darrell of “Storage Wars” once found a murdered corpse in a unit!

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pYP4A TIL in 2005, Michael Jackson planned to build a 50ft robot of himself that would "wander in the [Nevada] desert as an advertisement" for a proposed Las Vegas residency. Funding problems shelved both the robot and residency, and a Nov 2009 meeting to revisit the idea was cancelled once Jackson died
V0mG TIL A short film was made in 1976 where a man drives 85 mph through Paris while ignoring red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets, and driving on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck to get to his date. The director was rumored to be arrested on it’s first screening.
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
X06ZX TIL that The Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University is the only international organization that is devoted to the research of chile peppers.
Brldy TIL The reason Jonathan Frakes has a distinctive way of sitting (known as the Riker maneuver) on The Next Generation is because he injured his back working as a furniture mover. This is also why he leans on chairs and consoles, or has one leg propped up on something.