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TIL a 62-foot Jesus statue built by a megachurch was struck by lightning and subsequently burned.

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LQvRp TIL Hannah Upp, who was diagnosed with dissociative fugue, disappeared three separate times (2008, 2013, 2017) & remains missing today. Her disappearances spanned 20 days, 2 days, and 7 years & counting. All three occurred in September & were in some way connected to a body of water.
6dJl TIL in a 2011 Brazilian prison riot, the inmates decapitated 6 pedophiles and refused to stop rioting until their demands were met which included “two pounds(one kilogram) of marijuana, a television set, fans to cool the cells and the right to receive home cooked meals.”
R5nWa TIL that Angel Falls in Venezuela, the largest waterfalls in the world, is named after an American called Jimmie Angel
xOA0 TIL that Germany has one of the most progressive waste disposal systems in the world– in which nearly 70% of waste is recycled and most of the remainder is cleanly incinerated to generate power.
KO16J TIL that Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), still utilized today, allows for improvements in depression in 70-90% of the patients treated with it, much higher than that of psychopharmacology.