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TIL about Louis van Schoor, the South African 'Apartheid Killer' and former policeman convicted of multiple murders in the 1980s who claimed he was targeting criminals.

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0wQvM TIL that the superstitious tradition of knocking on wood for good luck is believed to have been conceived by ancient Indo-European people who believed that spirits (both good and bad) lived within the trees. By knocking on a tree one was asking for a blessing from the spirit which lived within.
16gxO TIL: The author of a best selling book chronicling the atrocities of Imperial Japan, fell into depression and committed suicide just seven years after the book was published
6Ed87 TIL that rollercoasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like that Americans were going to places like saloons and brothels and created the first rollercoaster on Coney Island to persuade them to go there instead.
DboV TIL that Australia and England have competed for cricket trophy “the ashes” 64 times since 1884. The score is currently 32-32
WkxlX TIL We've contaminated the ocean to the point there's plastic in the sea salt we use on our food...