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TIL A man was trapped under his dead 224 lbs wife for 3 days after she fell down the stairs on top of him

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ndo7 TIL Mark Zuckerberg ate meat only from the animals he killed, as a personal challenge to himself for 2011
7rBM TIL the movie that holds the record for most uses of the word “fuck” is “Fuck. ” The word is used between nine and ten times per minute for 93 minutes.
yQ1Pe TIL that the majority of silent era films are irrevocably lost and that at least half of all sound films from 1927 to 1950 are lost
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