TIL on one occasion, Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally consumed the drink laced with sleeping pills that was intended for his guest. When he awoke the following day, he discovered that his potential victim had stolen several items of clothing, $300, & a watch. He never officially reported the incident.
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TIL Eminem once turned down a joint tour with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg that would've been worth $100m (£80.2m) collectively. He said no because the lengthy tour wouldn't allow him to see his daughter Hailie for a long period of time. He said "I just don’t want to go on tour & come back & Hailie's grown"
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TIL the most reliable record-high IQ score ever recorded belongs to mathematician Terence Tao, with a confirmed IQ of 230.
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TIL when Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace premiered in May 1999, it's estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees in the US missed work to attend the film, which resulted in a $293 million loss of productivity.
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TIL in 2007 a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale brewed in 1852 was put up for auction online, however it was misspelt 'Allsop's Arctic Ale' in the listing. This made it hard to search for, so the winning bid was only $304. The buyer then relisted it with the correct spelling and it sold for $503,300.
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TIL after Tim Duncan's sophomore year in college he was already a top NBA prospect. Jerry West, the Lakers GM, said he could've been the #1 pick in the '95 draft. But he finished college instead because he promised his dying mom he'd get a degree. It didn't hurt his draft position, he went #1 in '97
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TIL scammer Giovanni Vigliotto married 105 women between 1949-1981 without ever getting divorced, which is the WR for the most bigamous marriages. None of his wives had known about each other. He married the women across 27 US states & 14 other countries, using a different fake identity each time.
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TIL a stowaway survived subzero temperatures & little oxygen at 38,000 feet inside a wheel well on a flight from Tahiti to a stopover in Los Angeles. He had a core body temp of 79°, well below what's usually considered fatal. His main motive was to fly to France to "shake hands" with Zinedine Zidane
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Stowaway Svetlana Dali boarding a New York-to-Paris flight without a boarding pass by slipping past two gate agents by staying close to a group of ticketed passengers as they passed the agents and boarded the plane.
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TIL Bruce Willis lost two-thirds of his hearing in his left ear while filming Die Hard (1988) after he fired a gun next to his ear, that was reportedly loaded with extra-loud blanks, when he was pinned underneath a table.
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TIL a Wells Fargo employee named Denise Ann Prudhomme was found dead at her desk 4 days after she had last scanned her badge to get into work. She was discovered when another employee walking by noticed that she was "slumped over" in her chair. Her death was ruled "a natural, sudden cardiac death."
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TIL Game of Thrones won 59 Primetime Emmys during its run, which is the most by a drama series in history and more than doubles the two drama series tied with the second-most Emmy wins: Hill Street Blues and The West Wing with 26 each.
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TIL the only reason 50 Cent was able to perform at the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime show was because Eminem refused to perform unless 50 was allowed to. 50 said "they didn't want me there", but Em "wouldn't do it without me. That's how I ended up on the show". Em has said 50 "is like a brother to me."
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TIL a teenager died while playing Run It Straight, a game branded as “the world’s fiercest, new collision sport.” It entails 2 people with no protective gear (a ball carrier & a tackler) sprinting directly towards each other creating a high-impact collision that's over 5x the force of a rugby tackle
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TIL Ricardo Abad Martínez holds the world record for most consecutive marathons run on consecutive days with 607. He also ran all of these marathons even though he still worked his factory job 8 hours a day.
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TIL in 2016 a man in China who took a selfie with a walrus was killed by the animal afterward, when it dragged him into water & held him under. Spectators & zoo staff thought it was just "playful behavior" at first. Eventually its trainer jumped in to help, but it killed him too by holding him under
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TIL a man discovered a trick for predicting winning tickets of a Canadian Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off game with 90% accuracy. However, after he determined that using it would be less profitable (and less enjoyable) than his consulting job as a statistician, he instead told the gaming commission about it
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TIL PFC Edward H. Ahrens engaged a group of Japanese troops in melee combat alone & was found mortally wounded the next day with 13 dead around him. Credited with killing at least 3, his last words to his CO were "The bastards tried to come over me last night, I guess they didnt know I was a Marine"
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TIL in 2019 a man in France weighed and scanned a PS4 as a piece of fruit at a self-serve checkout, paying €9 for the €340 console. He walked away unnoticed and later sold the item for €100. He was only caught because he returned to the same store the very next day. He was sentenced to four months.
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TIL in 2012 every household in the Spanish town, Sodeto (250 people in 70 households), except one collectively entered the lottery El Gordo & ended up winning $130K each. The only person not included was Costis Mitsotakis cause the local association who sold tickets door-to-door forgot to go to his.
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TIL a man died after throwing a hand grenade at his ex-gf's house when she refused to reconcile. He first tried to stab her with scissors, but others intervened. He then threw the grenade, but it didn't explode until he picked it up to re-throw, which killed him & injured four. His ex was not harmed
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TIL a 2008 study found that the quantity of bumper stickers on a car was a predictor of road rage. The more stickers, the more likely a driver is to exhibit it. The stickers are a good indicator of a driver's territorial disposition. The more territorial one is, the more violent one is prone to be.
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In 2001, a man attempted to enter the US undetected by being sewn into a car seat. However, his disguise as a passenger seat was wholly ineffective and immediately ended his attempt.
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Emilia Clarke watching Kit Harington's reaction to finding out how their characters' final scene together in Game of Thrones concludes. Prior to the table read, Kit had not read any of the six scripts for Season 8 yet. So Emilia sat across from him so she could "watch him compute all of this."
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Conleth Hill at the table read reacting to his character's death in final season of Game of Thrones.
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