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TIL that one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.

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vNXj TIL the heaviest human being ever recorded weighed 1400 lb. At one point, he also lost approximately 924 lb, the largest human weight loss ever documented.
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
VyJ8 TIL there is an atomic clock in Colorado which is so accurate it will not gain or lose a second over 300 million years.
rNE7w TIL about the kidnapping of Katie Beers, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by family friend John Esposito and kept prisoner in a bunker underneath his garden from 1992-93. He abused her and planned to keep her there for the rest of her life, but finally confessed after 17 days and she was rescued.
R7Oea TIL that Michael Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and did not get any real sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Instead, his personal doctor had been putting him under general anestheisa every night.