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TIL In Cheongju, South Korea, a gang of thieves rented a hotel and spent a month digging a secret tunnel to gain access to a nearby oil pipeline in order to siphon it. They've managed to dug 10 meters deep and reached the pipeline, but a police raid caught them before they could steal any oil.

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VBoKk TIL that the man who played the radiological technician in the movie The Exorcist is also a convicted murderer, and was briefly portrayed on screen in season 2 of Mindhunter.
EKZp TIL Following Fight Club ‘​s release, several fight clubs were reported to have started in the United States. A “Gentleman’s Fight Club” was started in Menlo Park, California in 2000 and had members mostly from the tech industry.
LkEDV TIL Don Lapre, the famous 90's infomercials guy who claimed to make $50,000 per week "placing tiny classified ads in newspapers" slit his throat and bled to death rather than face prison
rRYjy TIL broccoli is man made. Even though it was made over 2000 years ago. By farmers breeding different types of cabbage
rnm1 TIL that the Movie “Paranormal Activity” cost less than $15,000 to make but grossed over $193,000,000.