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TIL Yolanda Saldivar, infamous for murdering Selena, has served everyday since her sentence in isolation, due to death threats and bounties from prison gangs and the mexican mafia.

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O6Z7 TIL a Chernobyl fireman who claimed they didn’t know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, 20 years later said “Of course we knew! If we’d followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze.”
GlJG TIL In 1943 a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers’ coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised “Irish Coffee,” creating the now-famous cocktail.
a88XZ TIL that Volcán Cayambe in Ecuador is the only place on Earth where the equator intersects snow-cover
wLMk7 TIL the first popular band to release an album on CD was ABBA, with its 1982 CD release of their album Visitors.
8Z5Z TIL some sources say that Kim Il-Sung, founder of North Korea, could actually be an impostor, as he might have stolen the name of a resistance leader who had died