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TIL Every Year, Hundreds of Guatemalans in Chivarreto Celebrate Good Friday By Beating Each Other Up.

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yQxGa TIL The Serial Killer with the highest known kill-count will be released from jail next year because he showed authorities where he buried his victims.
epN7n TIL Giovanni Battista Grassi ingested roundworm eggs in 1879 to solve the century-old puzzle of how infection of roundworm is transmitted from host to host. Eventually, he found fresh eggs in his feces. Thus proving that the roundworm is transmitted through direct ingestion of a contaminated source.
dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.
86R4 TIL that in 1969 a writer committed suicide after failing to publish his novel. In 1981 said novel won a Pulitzer.
mx79Y TIL of Mack Ray Edwards, a serial killer who killed 6+ kids from 1953-1970 and buried their bodies in the highways he was helping construct. Some bodies still have not been uncovered.