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TIL of the Flint Effect. A result of cities being so delinquent in solving murders they appear to be beset by serial killers.

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5VKMP TIL A Sloth's claws are finger bones
P1Jme TIL that in 1946, New Zealand accidentally held its election late by 2 months because someone “forgot to mark the calendar, [and] forgot the last election was held earlier than usual”
mQ6Y TIL that so many Mongolians have studied at Colorado universities that the street the US Embassy to Mongolia is on was renamed “Denver Place”.
LQOn0 TIL that Mark DeFriest, known as the Houdini of Florida, is a prisoner in the Florida State Prison. His original four-year sentence has since developed into 34 years for 13 escape attempts, 7 of them successful, and hundreds of disciplinary reports.
nW9MP TIL the Lost Deck technique for box girder bridges means the plywood decking placed on top of the girders is cast into the rebar and concrete of the highway surface. The plywood is never removed and "lost" in the process.