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TIL Canadians eat more Mac and Cheese than any other nationality

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b9pG4 TIL About Tom Tobin, famous american mountain man and bounty hunter. In 1863 Tobin hunted down one of americas first serial killers, Felipe Espinosa, who killed 32 innocent civilians before Tobin single handedly decapitated him and his accomplices. Tobin was paid with a Henry rifle for the killings.
AEDg TIL Elmer McCurdy was mummified and used as a stage prop for 26 years before people realized his corpse was a real body
wL9jY TIL that the 1982 hit "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian hit of the same name, written and performed in 1979 by Umberto Tozzi.
RPVQ TIL that before air-dropped bombs were used in WWI, solid-cast darts called Flechettes were dropped in large batches from British and French planes over enemy trenches, which were capable of piercing helmets and skulls
xXL7 TIL there used to be a real horse-sized duck - the Dromornis Stirtoni