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TIL of Michael Taylor, a British man who murdered his wife by tearing out her eyes and tongue with his bare hands after an all night exorcism that supposedly left three demons remaining within him - insanity, murder, and violence

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4X6mX TIL the C.I.A. Purchased the Film Rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Changed its Ending to be More Anti-Communist
9YnxX TIL in 2005 Stevie Wonder released “So What The Fuss” collaborating with Prince and En Vogue. This was the first descriptive music video for the visually impaired. Narrated by Busta Rhymes.
kVk7 TIL immediately after the Challenger explosion, shares of every corporation involved in the Space Shuttle dropped. But by the end of the day, most had rebounded; only Morton Thiokol remained low. This was months before the official investigation found Thiokol to be responsible for the disaster.
b6D50 TIL that some countries use burial vaults to protect against graves sinking, also known as grave subsidence.
Br09K TIL that a second is technically defined to be "9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom”.