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TIL of serial killer Joe Metheny, who minced his victims into hamburgers and sold them at his own BBQ stand.

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JYGJ1 TIL Many Christmas traditions come from the Roman holiday Saturnalia.
mxyxR TIL that one of the attempts to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, involved draining a lake using a bucket chain of laborers. Over three months, the lake level fell 3 meters and only recovered about $100K worth of gold.
krOd TIL that after the Civil War many wealthy Confederate families fled to Brazil, today many Southern cultures and traditions can still be seen in the descendants of these “Confederados”
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.
1aQ1r TIL Neanderthals are believed to have practiced cannibalism, with 35% of Neanderthals recovered in France having the same butchery marks as animals hunted in that period.