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TIL there is a website that plays rain and thunderstorm ambiance should you so desire it…

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WbEd TIL: The Guatemalan Special forces, the Kaibiles, are infamous for forcing recruits to raise a puppy, bonding with it and then killing and eating it. Recruits are also shot and forced to perform field surgery on themselves, and they also have to drink water out of recently fired artillery shells.
MJlV TIL Stephen King threw away his original drafts of “Carrie” because he couldn’t write from a woman’s perspective. His wife retrieved them and launched his career.
8aeNK TIL of Barrack Busters, an improvised motar created by the IRA that fires propane tanks
xwMw TIL Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world
Yo7G TIL John Landis, director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, violated child labor laws when he hired 6-year-old and 7-year-old actors for the Twilight Zone movie. Both of the child actors, along with actor Vic Morrow, were decapitated by helicopter blades when a scene they were filming went wrong.