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TIL of Jack the Stripper who killed prostitutes in 60s London, and the killing stopped when a detective falsely announced that he had narrowed down the list of suspects.

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VMZEp TIL the Idaho legislature adopted a resolution commending the filmmakers of Napoleon Dynamite, which was filmed in the state. The resolution states that anyone voting against it were “freakin’ idiots”
1ae1d TIL small but spacious enough to carry your essential needs with you
vpGR TIL that a Hindu fakir claimed on live television that he could kill anybody with tantric chanting. A man in the audience took him up on it right then and there. The rest of the channels programs that evening were all cancelled to allow give the fakir several hours to attempt the kill.
W7yDX TIL in 1972, diver Bret Gilliam survived a 325+ ft ascent, with an empty oxygen tank, after trying to save a colleague from attacking sharks.
r5Rw TIL that the largest cave in the world, which houses a rain forest in its largest chamber, wasn’t discovered until 1991, and wasn’t explored until 2009.