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TIL of Pedro Filho, a vigilante serial killer who is the inspiration behind Dexter Morgan in the Books and Series

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7rlRZ TIL Teri Horton, the woman who purchased a painting by Jackson Pollock worth $50 million in a thrift store for five dollars.
16oOV TIL human babies float in their own pee in the womb and drink it too. If I had to learn this so do you
M5Ma TIL of the ADE 651, a fake bomb detector consisting a swivelling antenna mounted via a hinge to a plastic handgrip, requiring no battery, and supposedly charged by the user’s static electricity. It sold for $60,000 until its creator was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud.
gMVZX TIL the 1961 western film One Eyed Jacks was originally meant to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a script written by Rod Sterling and Sam Peckinpah, but studio disputes lead to Marlin Brando directing instead, and Sterling and Peckinpah going uncredited
W7yld TIL of Mary Tofts who successfully tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. OK, the year was 1726, and it was in the darker regions of England, but even the surgeon to the Royal Household of King George I fell for it. Nonetheless, rabbit stew was off most tables for a time