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TIL of Heart Attack Grill, a restaurant where people over 350 lbs eat free. 3 people have died while eating there and the only vegan option on the menu is cigarettes.

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D1KxV TIL in 1974, a couple disappeared along with their yacht from the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll while vacationing. Theyd feuded with a man on the island, whose boat was not seaworthy and was out of supplies. 7 years later, the wife's body washed ashore Palmyra, and the man was convicted of her murder.
gMLr4 TIL, it takes a photon up to 100,000 years to travel to the surface of the sun but only 8 minutes for it to then reach the earth.
L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.
Av5a TIL that there is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration
Aa9l TIL more than 60 percent of bankruptcies are the result of medical bills. In people’s time of greatest need, our medical system burdens them with debt.