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TIL of Julio Macias Gonzalez, a 17 year old from Mexico City, who died after his girlfriend gave him a hickey. The suction resulted in a blood clot, which traveled to his brain, causing a stroke.

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4meJ TIL of bank robber McArthur Wheeler. Because lemon juice can be used as invisible ink, Wheeler (wrongly) assumed that putting it on his face would make him invisible to the bank’s security cameras. He was caught later that day.
GLx7 TIL that less than 1% of Sweden’s trash ends up in landfills
5YrxD TIL Tool's CD Lateralus is composed so if you reorder the tracks using the Fibonacci sequence, you get a new album: "The Holy Gift"
j6XpE TIL Doing CPR on person who is pulseless because of blood loss (gunshot wound, stabbing, etc.) worsens their chance of survival.
YpkB TIL there was a war named after Toyota, due to their pickup trucks being used as war vehicles