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TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after outtake footage shot for Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him attending a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder

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9YQy7 TIL of a serial arsonist in California who worked as an arson investigator and fire captain, and would commit arson on his way to and from arson investigator conferences. Before his arrest, he even wrote a novel about a firefighter who was a serial arsonist.
Z8BOo Today I Learned that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is not connected to any sewage system. The refuse is driven away in trucks.
kOwkg TIL black holes aren't totally black, as energy is released to compensate for mass that enters the black hole, and this faint glow is called Hawking radiation after Stephen Hawking, who figured it out
wLQmP TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward
jNrnX TIL that the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, filled their house with over 100 tons of random objects. Langley constructed a maze of tunnels, complete with deadly booby traps, to protect his brother, who never left his room. Langley was killed by his own traps, and Homer starved to death.