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TIL that the first 2 U.S. serial killers were river pirates.

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8erdL TIL of the Imperial Boomerang, which theorizes that governments that use repressive techniques to subdue colonies will inevitably end up using those same techniques against their own citizens.
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.
VQw8 TIL: 4 Marlboro Men Have Died Of Smoking Related Diseases
aKky TIL that a manufacturing defect saved a mobster’s life. A car bomb detonated under Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s 1981 Cadillac Eldorado, but GM installed a metal plate under the driver’s seat in that model to correct its balance, protecting him from the explosion. (‘Casino’ (1995) depicts the bombing.)
woGo6 TIL that Seth MacFarlane was only 24 when he made Family Guy