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TIL that the 1976 film "Stalker" eventually caused the creation of the Burning Man festival.

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Eg0Q0 TIL in 2011, a man died as a result of inserting his penis in a bottle. Apparently, this was the first case of death related to penile strangulation ever recorded.
Q5Zk TIL the reason cocaine was removed from Coca Cola was not because people learned the negative health impact of the drug but because of racial fears on the part of white Americans
VGw0 TIL For the last fifty years of her life, Mother Teresa had lost her faith. In private letters to friends and confessors she acknowledged repeatedly that she no longer felt the presence of God in her life at all, and once described her pretense at faith as “hypocrisy”.
OPNY TIL that astronauts in zero gravity cannot burp, but they can fart.
WOX9 TIL The SR-71 was made of titanium purchased from the Soviet Union through third world countries as they were the only supplier large enough. The SR-71 was used to spy on the Soviet Union for the rest of the cold war.