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TIL that The Beatles stopped touring partly because their speakers could no longer compete with their fans’ screams.

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J1b5j TIL that the FBI banned solo interviews with serial killers after convict Edmund Kemp told FBI agent Robert Ressler that if he wanted to he could kill Ressler long before any help showed up.
6EVj8 TIL every Christmas in Lexington, Kentucky, you can pay off your tickets with canned food donations
6EnYX TIL that a Chinese billionaire sparked social backlash by purchasing a rare 500 year old tea cup for 38 million dollars, and then drinking tea out of it. To appease people angered by his using it, Liu Yiqian said “I’m not going to use it ever day.”
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.
knQm TIL if you wanted to recreate the entire LEGO movie, you would need 15,080,330 LEGO pieces.