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TIL that the father from seventh heaven stopped acting because he was exposed as being a predator

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aw5xy TIL A missing DJ’s body was found nearly mummified within the walls of a bar soon after Winnipeg instituted a no smoking in bars law. Before the ban, the smell of cigarette smoke covered up the smell of his decomposing body.
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
pYNRe TIL Cruachan Hydroelectric Power Station pumps water uphill at night to release and generate electricity during the day
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”
6e6Z TIL that in 1909, the employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company went on strike, demanding a shorter work week as well as unlocked doors and sturdier fire escaped. They were denied the latter demands, and as a result many of the same workers died in the Triangle fire two years later.