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TIL a family fighting a $474,000 hospital bill, got charged $12 for each of those little paper cups nurses give you when they administer pills

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epgEn TIL In 1989, Pastor Jack Hyles told a church member to start living in his basement alone and pray against all the sin he saw around him, while secretly having an affair with the man's wife upstairs. When the member complained, Hyles built him a backyard bedroom, and the situation lasted 12 years.
gMVrA TIL of the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, an April Fool's Day prank pulled by the BBC in 1957. Their highly respected news anchor reported a good harvest due to the disappearance of the 'Spaghetti Weevil', accompanied by footage of people removing spaghetti from trees. This sparked many complaints.
OoJZ1 TIL of Neerja Bhanot - a stewardess on hijacked Pan Am flight 73. She hid the passports of American passengers to protect them. Hijackers shot passengers killing 22 and wounding 150. Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery by India, Pakistan, and the US.
Z818o TIL the wire frame computer graphic flying scene in Escape From New York was actually made using a 3D model of Manhattan and reflective tape. Computers at the time were not powerful enough to produce this kind of graphics.
oD0K TIL that vampire bats will die if they can’t find blood for two nights in a row. Luckily, generous well-fed bats will often regurgitate blood to share with others, in exchange for grooming. This has been noted by many naturalists as an example of reciprocal altruism in nature.