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TIL Conan O'Brien was stalked by a Catholic Priest who followed him and his family, and even threatened to kill him, because he was denied a spot in the Late Night audience.

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XEm16 TIL Ted Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law in court- that a marriage declaration in front of a presiding judge was counted as a legal marriage. As he questioned his girlfriend Carol Ann Boone, he asked her to marry him, and announced they were married to the court when she accepted.
p80Ob TIL the Australian Kangaroo 1 tonne gold is the largest bullion coin in the world made of 99.99% gold and weighing 1 tonne or 35,274 ounces, 80cm wide and more than 12cm deep. At today’s (May 26, 2020) gold price ($1,710.42USD) this coin is worth $‭60,343,937 USD.
X0Or8 TIL The empty space you see in products like chips bags has a technical term and it's called nonfunctional slack-fill.
4XLGw TIL at Auschwitz Joseph Mengele once shot a woman and her child for scratching an SS member’s face and ordered the entire transport of Jews to be gassed, saying “Away with this shit.”
18G8 TIL To increase awareness about a lack of organ donors, a Dutch reality TV show had contestants in need of a kidney compete for a donation. It was revealed as a hoax, but within a month, 7,300 new people were registered as organ donors and 50,000 had requested paperwork to become a donor.