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TIL The Snow in the Blizzard of 1949 was So Hard and So Deep they Used Dynamite to Blast the Trains Free

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ZP64 TIL that THC (compound found in Marijuana) slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease
6mk8 TIL that when people die in huge crowd ‘stampedes’, it’s rarely from being trampled, it’s from being crushed and suffocated (while still standing) by densely packed bodies.
KOpZ9 TIL Jason Padgett was hit in the head after a violent attack in 2002, this attack in turn made him acquire Savant Syndrome, which gave his extremely good math skills and a different view in the world, with water looking like flowing lines as opposed to the smoothness most of us see.
E9OV TIL in the original script for The Truman Show, Truman watches 2 men rape a woman and does nothing, threatens to smash a baby on the floor, cheats on his wife with a hooker, and waterboards his wife
m1XnM TIL Mcdonalds Fries Have Beef Flavoring!