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TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.

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OvXR TIL 25 years ago one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, a 14 year old Laotian boy, escaped only to be returned to him by the police. He was strangled to death shortly afterwards.
R5RgQ TIL that there are some people who suffer from a condition where they are unable to sleep for months on end or develop near-permanent insomnia, leading to poor memory, coordination, hallucinations, delirium, exhaustion and eventually death.
5VPQD TIL a 35-year-old Japanese man Ryuta Watanabe has 4 wives and 2 girlfriends, has not worked in over a decade and aims to have the most kids in Japanese history with 54 kids.
ekGE TIL the Chocolate River in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was actually made of chocolate cream, and eventually turned rancid
GZE TIL that it takes the explosion of an atomic bomb to just detonate a hydrogen bomb.