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TIL: Rebecca Black donated the proceeds from her video "Friday" to charity

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N7bO8 TIL That Hans Steininger, a 16th century German Mayor of a small town, died by tripping on his beard. It was over 4 and a ½ feet long and he usually kept it tucked away in a pocket, but during a town fire he forgot to put it in and tripped on in it in the chaos, breaking his neck.
j5rn TIL In 1999, an unemployed woman living with her sister ended up taking a job giving massages to workers of a small tech startup named “Google”. She was only paid $450 a week, but given stock options. Within 5 years she was worth millions, and the price of her stock has only continued to increase.
MenwK TIL when a serial killer broke into a woman's apartment, choked her roommate out & started choking her, she let her body go limp & pretended to pass out. While he was preparing to kill the roommate, she jumped of out a window & called for help. The roommate was saved & the serial killer got caught
Ooywa TIL about .kkrieger, a fully 3D first person shooter which takes up only 96KB. This is about 60x smaller than the average selfie.
n569 TIL a woman watching an A&E show discovered that her apartment once belonged to a serial killer who tortured women in the basement. The woman begged to get out of her lease, but the landlord refused. She was the killer’s mother.