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TIL that in 2006, a man escaped from a US federal prison by mailing himself out

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yQOjJ TIL of Julio Macias Gonzalez, a 17 year old from Mexico City, who died after his girlfriend gave him a hickey. The suction resulted in a blood clot, which traveled to his brain, causing a stroke.
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