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TIL About 85 percent of the things you worry about never happen.

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JeWQ TIL a father and young son were kidnapped and brought to a construction site where the kidnappers cut the father’s throat from ear to ear, shot the son 3 times, then the kidnappers buried them. The father escaped, walked ¼ mile, and flagged down a police officer. He survived. The son did not.
6Eda7 TIL Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She began to believe she was a goddess so she took over the cult and began sacrificing her followers.
x6VAb TIL that aside from preventing hair from falling into food, a chef’s hat also indicates their rank among the kitchen staff. Traditionally the taller the hat, the higher the rank.
ne467 TIL the popular arcade game NBA Jam was thought to be haunted. During demo mode, the machines would randomly shout “Petrovic”, the name of an NBA player who died in a car accident shortly after the game finished production.
WyDB TIL that Tycho Brahe had a pet dwarf as well as a domesticated elk.