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TIL That Ed Kemper, serial killer who killed his grandparents and mother amongst many others, voiced reading hundreds of audio books for the blind

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gXG4 TIL Iran once administered random alcohol tests to drivers during a one month period. Despite a ban on alcoholic beverages, they found 26% of the drivers to be drunk.
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