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TIL there are Carnivorous Caterpillars in Hawaii
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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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TIL screen legend beauty Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor who designed a jam-proof radio guidence system for torpedoes which is one of the basic sources behind spread spectrum communication like blue-tooth technology, GPS, wi-fi, and cell phones
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TIL the famous Dakota apartment building in NYC got its name because when it was built in 1880 that area of the city was so empty they compared it to the remote and sparsely populated Dakota Territory in the midwest.
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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.
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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.