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TIL Serial killing is largely an American phenomenon, with nearly 70% of all serial killers on record being American.

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4kX4N TIL that in the years preceding the French Revolution, the price of bread went from costing about 50% of a laborer's daily wages to about 88% of their income.
E5lp TIL The town of Dalhart, Texas is closer to 6 other state capitals than it is to Texas’s state capital.
698LZ TIL about Tarrare, a French spy and Performer who had such an appetite he would eat live cats and puppies, cadavers from morgues and was even suspected of kidnapping and eating a baby. He would also eat from heaps of dung in the street and as a spy, the entire army's rations.
oRMno TIL about King Neptune, a pig that the US navy auctioned multiple times to raise funds for the USS Illinois. It raised 19 million (321 million today) dollars in war bonds and two monuments were made in its honor.
ep6YD TIL that four days after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, another fire burned through New York's State Capitol, which destroyed vast holdings of the State Library and Museum and killed a watchman. The two fires have been described as a "one-two punch" that led to fire safety reform in New York.