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TIL while on the run, Richard McNair, was staying at a motel and upon returning to his room he saw a SWAT team surrounding the building and decided to drive off, but later found out that the SWAT team was responding to a hostage situation, so he drove back and recorded the standoff with a camera.

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6EZM8 TIL that a man from Australia survived a car accident, buys a lottery ticket shortly after 15 days in a coma and wins. The news finds out, asks him to reenact the ticket purchase, he wins a larger amount than the first on live TV.
VKb4 TIL - With 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game play, people have played Call of Duty for longer than the course of human existence.
kJj0g TIL that after the initial pitch for The Walking Dead was rejected for being too "normal", Robert Kirkman revised the pitch so that the zombie virus was caused by aliens to weaken humanity before an invasion. Kirkman had no intention of ever writing this into the comic, but this pitch was approved.
j9RM TIL the marble masterpiece “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” was unearthed ~1608 after being buried for centuries. In 1620, 22-yr-old phenom Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved the marble mattress on which s/he lies today that’s so strikingly realistic visitors are compelled to give it a testing prod.
ovBW TIL Stephen King Believed his popularity to be an accident, So King wrote under a pen name “Richard Bachman”. The books sold equally well, and King was outed. Happy birthday Stephen King!