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4Xnpg TIL that serial killer Rodney Alcala appeared on and won The Dating Game. The bachalorette pulled out of the date due to feeling creeped out by Alcala.
YpmxP TIL The body of Mats Israelsson was preserved so well in vitriol in the Falun Mine that when his body was found 40 years after his death he looked like he had just died
59Dn TIL that lobsters are functionally immortal. They show no measurable signs of aging (no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive urge or ability, no decline in strength or health), and seem to only die from external causes.
4JQ5 TIL that Stephen Hawking is the only person who has portrayed himself in Star Trek. Specifically, in a poker game between Hawking, Einstein, Newton, and Data.
bvnZ TIL that you are more than twice as likely to be a victim of knife crime in the UK as you are to be a victim of gun crime in the US.