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TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a few fast food restaurants on base, and prisoners who cooperate in interrogations have been given McDonald’s Happy Meals as rewards

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oBQ58 TIL Peter Ivers, the artist that wrote and recorded the song "In Heaven" for David Lynch's film "Eraserhead," was bludgeoned to death with a hammer at his home in LA. He was 36 years old. His murder remains unsolved.
KOQ79 TIL when a persistent Washington DC bookstore clerk exposed Stephen King as the true author of books written under the name Richard Bachman, King's publishers sent out a press release announcing Bachman's death from "cancer of the pseudonym."
ERDw TIL 2pac Auditioned to Be a Jedi in ‘Star Wars’
epwxg TIL that there’s a dragon in some versions of the Bible
5VBnr TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.