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TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and despite there being 100 staff on the same floor in the department no-one realised he was dead for 2 days.

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Z8y1o TIL Yo-Yo Ma's relative hid the Ma family genealogy in the wall of their home during the Cultural Revolution. It was uncovered that his paternal ancestry traces back eighteen generations to the year 1217.
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.
7N7r TIL that Gloria Steinem talked Leonardo DiCaprio out of playing Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, saying, “Please, please don’t do this to those girls. The eyes of all 13-year-old girls are upon you and you can’t play a guy that tortures and kills women.” (Then she married Christian Bale’s dad.)
BgZVb TIL The Carrington Event (1859) was the most intense recorded geomagnetic storm, it created auroras globally and lit telegraph stations on fire
Oo1vX TIL Spade Cooley, country music star, was sentenced to life in prison for beating his wife to death in front of their daughter. He later received a 72-hour furlough from the prison hospital unit to play a benefit concert. After receiving a standing ovation he suffered a fatal heart attack backstage.