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TIL that Indiana's most notorious serial killer Belle Gunness was nearly exposed but she burned down her home and feigned death while successfully framing the only potential witness to her crimes for the murder of her and her children. He died a year later in prison. She was never seen again.

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oB48R TIL in 2013 Harrison Okene, a cook aboard a Nigerian tugboat, was the only survivor of a crew of 12 when the boat sank. Trapped 100 feet below the surface, he survived for 72 hours in an air pocket before being rescued by Dutch divers from a nearby oil rig who had been sent in to recover the bodies.
ZpZQp TIL that the girl who played Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” grew up to be the lead singer of the rock band “The Pretty Reckless”
Zo9o TIL The platypus is actually not the only surviving member of its biological family. There is a small hedgehog like spiked ant-eater called a “Echidna” that is the only other surviving member of the same biological order. It is also the only other surviving mammal that lays eggs.
R7wKw TIL about Anatori Crypts in northern Georgia. A crypt villagers used to lock themselves in during the plague so they wouldn't infect others.
x55w TIL that a German man named Walter Kellner won a writing competition describing an amazing emergency landing in Sardinia based on a true story. An Australian man, also named Walter Kellner, tried to sue him for stealing his own story. Turns out both stories were coincidentally true.