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TIL - A fan of ‘Big Brother Australia’ host Bree Amer spent a year and over $500 stalking her by letter and phone, urging her to get tested for cancer. When a friend insisted she follow his advice, she was found to have thyroid cancer.

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6jQX TIL that after Bill Murray’s character in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones mentioned a fictitious “National Chicken Wing Festival” in Buffalo, New York, the city created a real version of the festival, and has held it every year since then.
vP1ex TIL that in 1974 there were at least 5 serial killers active including the BTK Killer, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy.
XEpnQ TIL a 71 year old man from Palm Beach, Florida tied a gun to a weather balloon, inflated it, then shot himself to death... successfully faking his own murder
GvQ7 TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
7rX5r TIL in the 90s, video game designer Kenji Eno learned he had blind fans, who played his games with great effort. So he designed a blank-screen game just for them: "Real Sound: Kaze no Regret." He made Sega send 1000 consoles (w/ the game) to blind people. It is still a popular game for the blind.