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TIL former WWE Wrestler Kane is now the mayor of Knoxville, TN

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0wLNy TIL when praying mantis mate, the female bites off the male's head shortly after and then eats it's corpse for nourishment
eprMD TIL that airline pilots routinely fall asleep mid-flight — and in one shocking study, 43% admitted they had woken up only to find their co-pilot asleep too.
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
0pAM TIL the first issue of Playboy in December 1953 was undated, as Hugh Hefner was not sure if there would be a second issue.
KO8oJ TIL that most volume knobs must operate on a logarithmic curve, not a linear one, because the human brain perceives differences in small volumes far better than it can tell differences in large volumes