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TIL Sumanto, once found with three dug-up corpses and jailed for cannibalism in Indonesia, is now a popular food vlogger and have even participated in a fun run called ‘Chased by Sumanto’

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oR70R TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.
V4G4 TIL there is an unaired Mythbusters episode. Groups of mice were used to test if “the box is more nutritious than the cereal”. The mice in one of the groups were eating “pallets of cardboard”. One day they checked and there were no longer 3 mice in that group, but 1 really fat mouse.
5llB TIL that russian peasants used to practice 6 month periods of psudo hibernation each and every year to stave off starvation and famine. It was called the ‘Winter Sleep’ or 'lotska’.
BDLD TIL when Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded, the first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the neck, except for a bit of sinew which was cut by hand. When the executioner held her head aloft, the hair turned out to be a wig and the head fell to the ground.
6MA7 TIL that the French Navy uses distorted proportions of 30:33:37 on the Flag to give better optical proportions