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TIL: That Serial Killer Richard Ramirez was born on February 29

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R7RQQ TIL Bulgarians refer to bucket hats as "idiotka", idiot hats
4XP1a TIL Brenda E. Robinson was the first African American female pilot in US Navy history in 1980
yJLw TIL that in the 50’s one of the major attractions at Las Vegas was watching atomic bomb tests nearby. For a time Vegas was marketed as ‘Atomic City.’
wLwbE TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart “nothing at all.”
XP4Q TIL the guerrilla advertisers for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie held a press conference on 70s hair styles after being arrested for putting up LED signs of a cartoon character around Boston some thought were bombs