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TIL a 71 year old man from Palm Beach, Florida tied a gun to a weather balloon, inflated it, then shot himself to death... successfully faking his own murder

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YjBP TIL that while planning his comeback in Las Vegas in 2007, Michael Jackson wanted to build a 50 foot tall robot replica of himself that would roam the desert under the flight paths of incoming planes, shooting lasers out of its eyes in order to get the attention of the tourists flying into the city.
j65xp TIL Susanna Hoffs was NOT the designated lead singer of The Bangles. All four members sang - it just so happened that most of the band's big hits had Hoffs as lead.
1EKD TIL the low-carb, high-fat, high-protein diet of the Inuit has never conclusively been shown to have greater health benefits compared to non-Inuit diets: The Inuit population has the same risk for coronary artery disease, and their risk of cerebrovascular stroke is twice that of North America.
Llyv TIL Karl Urban’s character in the 2012 film “Dredd” was legally required to never remove his helmet and to keep his face obscured. Urban had no issue with this as “if you’d grown up reading Dredd, you’d never really consider taking the helmet off.”
wdNW TIL the bald truth of what really happened to Steve from Blues Clues!! He was starting to lose his hair and decided to leave the show to go after other career options.