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TIL in 2005, a young nun in Romania died at the hands of a priest during an exorcism after being bound to a cross, gagged, and left for days without food or water in an effort to expel demons.

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7Aob TIL a man who passed himself off as Tiger Woods and went on a $17,000 shopping spree was sentenced to 200 years in prison.
ExOw TIL that Ken Jeong did not tell anyone he was going to jump out of the trunk nude in The Hangover and the reaction from the actors was genuine.
l76DK TIL McDonald's waged a 26 year unsuccessful legal battle against a man named Ronald McDonald and his McDonald's Family Restaurant
b9Bxa TIL Nazi spies tried infiltrating Russia in WW2 using fake passports; the passports were recognized as fraud because Russian passports use iron staples that stain the pages with rust, while Nazis used steel. During the Cold War, American spies made the same mistake
X0JaE TIL that in his final years as US president, Woodrow Wilson was too sick to govern. His wife Edith kept his sickness secret, taking over so many duties she was essentially president. She hid Wilson's paralysis by covering his left side with a blanket.