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TIL A lightning strike can completely change someone’s personality.

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p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
knj7 TIL that the “homeless man with a golden voice”, Ted Williams, is now homeless again and “owns nothing.”
ONQg TIL Elephants have been known to extract spears from wounded friends, and to stay with infants born with disabilities.
kJ684 TIL the Quiznos sandwich chain, once a common sight with its catchy slogan "Mmm... Toasty!" and 4700 locations in 2007, suffered a steep decline and closed over 90% of its stores within the following ten years. This event goes down in industry history as the largest and swiftest collapse.
olWY TIL Jay Jackson, who plays Perd Hapley on Parks and Recreation, has 13 acting credits. 11 of those are as a reporter or newscaster.