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TIL there are Carnivorous Caterpillars in Hawaii

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YpOXd TIL: Two different comics introducing 'Dennis the Menace' went on sale on the same day in the US and UK, and they are not the same character!
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ADGon TIL that as a result of the investigation into serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Russian police solved more than more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders, 140 aggravated assaults, and 245 molestations.
5lV9 TIL that Gottfried Leibniz, in addition to inventing calculus, also built an early computer, investigated binary numbers, and worked on developing a programming language… in the 1600s.