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TIL of the 1972 Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor air show disaster.

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EGDX TIL that in Hannibal the novel, Clarice and Dr. Lecter escape together and become lovers in Argentina. (And Hopkins liked the ending better)
wLXMo TIL Medical students in 18th-century Scotland could pay their tuition fees in corpses.