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TIL of “The Colts” the family at the center of the worst cases of child abuse in Australia. A commune of 40 people whose genes were traced back to a married brother and sister.

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wLwgE TIL that in WWII, Allied statisticians working from the serial numbers of captured or destroyed German tanks’ components were more accurate than conventional espionage at estimating German tank production capacity.
9wWmM TIL Analtech, the name of a U.S. based manufacturer of glass plates and other accessories, became a liability with the rise of the internet as YouTube videos promoting their products directed viewers to less than wholesome videos and clients reported being blocked by their own security protocols.
v1wKR TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death in large part on the basis of now-discredited forensic bite mark evidence. Though there was other evidence implicating him and he later confessed to the killings anyway, so no one doubts his guilt.
VwXG TIL hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon are created by content generating computer algorithms
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