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TIL New York has a memorial to Benedict Arnold's leg

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WkwNL TIL about Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a Brazilian serial killer who killed about 100 people and was jailed for 30+ years. Because of Brazilian laws, he is currently free and is a popular YouTuber.
log4a TIL that the last rock song to achieve #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback on December 2001
d8vJr TIL there exists 2 pornographic movies from 1993 based on the Super Mario video game series called „Super Hornio Brothers” that Nintendo bought rights to, in order to halt their distribution.
69108 TIL Italy banned tourists from going shirtless
4XNk6 TIL J. K. Rowling wrote a short 800-word prequel to Harry Potter for a charity auction in 2008. 13 authors were asked to write an original work for the auction, and Rowling's piece sold for more than all the other writer's works combined at 25,000 pounds alone.