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TIL we still don’t know who was sending anthrax-laden letters to senators and news media in 2001. Evidence against the top suspect is flimsy at best, and he died of apparent suicide in 2008.

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rR4Dw TIL that Carlo Kaiser had a decade long career as a professional soccer player, during which time he managed to hide the fact that he was a bad player through various techniques, such as faking injuries, changing teams, and befriending journalists who would write fake articles about him.
Y7akA TIL that catnip does not affect all cats because catnip sensitivity is an inherited genetic trait. Kittens that have the trait for catnip sensitivity will be affected at around 3 months old.
4X0n5 TIL: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, and ardent atheist, who got prayer kicked out of American schools, was kidnapped along with her son and granddaughter and dismembered, not by religious fanatic, but by a fellow atheist, he also robbed $600,000 from the victims.
grALy TIL about Ashrita Furman, who has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds over 200 records, thus holding the "Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records". He has been breaking records since 1979.
nWgeG TIL even though there are some ecological concerns about their numbers, hogsuckers are abundant and widely distributed to southern Canada and much of the eastern and southern United States