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TIL: 20 years ago, DotComGuy (Mitch Maddox) in a promotion for Internet companies, changed his name to DotComGuy and was paid to live the entire year of 2000 in his house in Dallas, Texas, buying all food and necessities online. Video from the house was streamed 24 hours a day on the DotComGuy.com

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R7gEa TIL of German serial killer Karl Denke, in the 1910’s killed upwards of 40 people, and processed their flesh into pickled “pork”, their hair into shoelaces, and their skin into belts, and other gruesome items that he then sold at markets and door-to-door.
a8kkb TIL about Skyquakes, a mysterious phenomenon where people hear loud booming noises but there is no apparent source. Theories include gas escaping the earth, meteoric sonic booms, volcanic eruptions, and you guessed it... earthquakes.
x6lED TIL Italo Balbo, the Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa, was shot down by Italian forces. Balbo had been a famed aviator so the British RAF dropped a condolence reef at a nearby airfield.
DQEPp TIL Alan Turing's father was in the Indian Civil Service and his mother was the daughter of the chief engineer of Madras Railways. Alan's parents met and married in India, although he was born in the UK.
nbn7 TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson in Parks & Rec) used his woodworking skills to build a wooden gazebo for the Japan House of his alma mater (Urbana-Champaign).