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TIL The last words of serial killer Peter Kürten were “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”

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X0EGD TIL about censorship in Turkish media. Alcohol and Tobacco products are blurred out and sometimes covered with a flower. Any forms of kissing or love making is banned amongst other things like mentioning brands.
XyBP TIL Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas celebrate Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s birthday the same day as Martin Luther King Jr Day
lo87V TIL In China, someone set up a fake bank branch office and it operated "normally" for more than 1 year. All the money that customers put in (~$32m) was gone.
KYM1E TIL during a test of the accuracy of dog DNA tests, a man submitted his own human DNA, and got results back with dog breeds they suspected the DNA being from
l716K TIL before Playtex became one of the largest manufacturers of tampons, they made space suits for the Apollo mission.