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TIL in Venezuela in 2007, a man woke up during his autopsy

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YKaG TIL at an Amazon warehouse in PA, during hot summers the company would station paramedics outside to carry away fainting employees, instead of paying for A/C
DRPD TIL that America’s first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers, were kicked out of pirate gang for being too brutal: the Harpe Brothers would throw their victims off the cliffs of Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
MGAV TIL there exists an image of Columbia space shuttle reentering atmosphere just before it disintegrated. It was snapped casually by people in Kirtland Air Force Base testing their tracking telescope.You can see debris stream out from left wing.
b85a TIL Jupiter is as big as it can possibly get. If it gained more mass, it would begin to shrink due to higher gravity pulling the gasses in.
BgNvd TIL the city of Vernon in the LA area is exclusively industrial and its only residents are the city administration and its employees.