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TIL Earache Records reissued numerous albums in "Full Dynamic Range" editions, restoring the sound of each

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G6wN TIL in 2013 the Saudi King Abdullah ordered Khalid Bin Mohsen Shaari, the heaviest person on the planet with a BMI of 204, to be hospitalized for weight reduction. Six months later, he had lost half his weight (320kg).
0dE1L TIL Hitchcock demanding set start times for Psycho is what started that practice
5YlXP TIL the island of Faisans in the middle of the Bidasoa river, on the border of Spain and France, switches countries every six months. This was agreed to as part of the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. This sort of joint sovereignty is called a condominium.
684l TIL that if you are dyslexic in an alphabetic language like English, you may not be in a pictographic language, like Mandarin, as brain scans show them occurring in different places.
p84pp TIL Sandy Hook perpetrator Adam Lanza was visited by the FBI when he was 12 for hacking through 2 levels of government security. They said if he was really that good he could work for them someday.