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TIL: 76% of all known serial killers in the 20th century were from the United States

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R5gW7 TIL of Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac man discovered in 2004 who had no memories of his life and could not even recall his name. It was not until 2015 that his identity was discovered through DNA testing, and there is still a twenty-year gap in his life history with no known records
R7W77 TIL NASA pioneered research for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)/Orthostatic Intolerance (OI) and developed therapeutic exercise programs for them for astronauts returning from space.
9wKY7 TIL Genghis Khan adopted a policy of strategic marriages. He would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. The king's other wives were dismissed. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while the daughter took over the rule of the kingdom.
4X8b5 TIL Japan banned beer vending machines from public sidewalks, not to prevent public drunkenness or sales to minors but because liquor store owners didn’t like the competition.
ne7gY TIL: FDR is related – by blood or marriage – to a total of eleven presidents: Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Madison, Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Van Buren, Grant, and Taft.