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TIL Sture Bergwall, Sweden’s most notorious serial killer who was incarcerated after confessing to at least 30 murders and crimes such as rape and cannibal, was later found to have been a manipulative liar. He never actually killed a single person.

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7rLLX TIL our calendar skipped 11 days in September of 1752.
4kerw TIL of Law Lords. Formally known as Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, they were members of the House of Lords acting as judges for the chamber's judicial functions as it was the UK's court of last resort for over 200 years, until the creation of the UK Supreme Court in 2009.
vodR TIL that 50% of the fuel needed to get to Mars is required just to get out of low Earth orbit.
j6PrE TIL under rare circumstances, it is possible for human sperm to travel up the fallopian tube, through the ovarian tissue, and penetrate the wall of an intact ovarian follicle to reach the ovum and fertilize the egg before ovulation occurs
X0JP TIL that cats and dogs prefer to listen to species-specific music that sounds grating and unnatural to the human ear. They may not like ordinary human music!