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TIL Weinstein has been thanked more than God at the Oscars

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ADXeg TIL that serial killer Joel Rifkin was only caught when he was spotted driving without a rear licence plate, and police found the corpse of his last victim in the back of his truck.
rRJMe TIL about drunken boxing, founded by Liu Qizan, a murderer seeking refuge at a monastery who supposedly beat 30 monks so soundly while drunk they made his form a legitimate style
M7MnK TIL The first stenotype machine (the machine used by court reporters to type shorthand) was invented in 1830.
KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
16J8V TIL The largest lake in the solar system isn't on Earth. Its on Saturn's moon, Titan.