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TIL a woman secretly kept her lover hidden in her attic for over a decade; he emerged only to kill her husband

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8eG04 TIL when the Beach Boys released God Only Knows in 1966, it was taboo to reference "God" in a song's title, and that they were worried that the song may not receive airplay
p8jXp TIL in 1979 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison planted 1008 plastic flamingos across campus. Ever since, Madison has embraced plastic flamingos; they are their soccer team's mascot and are even the city's official bird.
R5ap6 TIL revenge killings were legal in Japan up to 1873
kOGKd TIL of a KFC knockoff in Bangkok that used Hitler's face instead of the colonel's for the logo
VM0DD TIL that Timothy Ray Brown is considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia. His transplant came from someone with a natural genetic resistance to HIV. He was cured of HIV but scientists don’t fully understand why.