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TIL Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by crabs.

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e04og TIL that in 1999 George Harrison was repeatedly stabbed and beaten with a lamp in his own home by a fan who believed he was on a mission from God, nearly becoming the second Beatle to be murdered for religious reasons by a crazed fan.
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