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TIL the son of the voice actor who played the demon in ‘The Exorcist’ killed his entire family and then himself

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NBGN TIL that the Virginia Tech shooter’s mom sought out exorcisms for her son versus mental health treatment prior to the shootings (About 3 minutes in)
OK8g TIL there was a man who fought for Finland, the Nazis, and the US Army Special Forces, escaped a POW camp, was pardoned by the President of Finland, earned a Bronze Star and Five Purple Hearts, and disappeared in 1965, only to have his remains confirmed in 1999.
XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
GYJJJ TIL that a 'stereotype' was originally a plaster-cast copy of a block of typeset letters, that printers could use to reprint unchanged text (for example books) without having to re-set the type from scratch
Z8Yeo TIL there are more CEOs named "David" than all female CEOs combined in the US