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TIL of Jon-Erik Hexum, an actor who was fooling around with a gun between delays on a TV set in 1984. He jokingly raised the gun to his head and said “Can you believe this crap?” before pulling the trigger and blowing his skull open with the explosion of the blank at close range.

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QJp66 TIL: While there is aphantasia, the inability to produce mental images, there is also the even lesser known hyperphantasia, the ability to produce extremely vivid mental images.
wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
xDy1 TIL in 1883, the body of a bear and Frank Devereaux were found dead beside each other with the ground around them thrashed for 20 square feet. It’s believed the man and bear fought to the death.
jP8N TIL that Michael Keaton was only onscreen for 7.5 minutes in the 92 minute movie Beetlejuice.
gJD8 TIL the Christian God ordered an invading army to kill the women of Samaria, cut their fetuses out of their wombs, and to dismember their babies by repeatedly bashing them over stones