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TIL that 11 U.S. states have Privacy in their constitution. Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Washington, unlike the U.S. constitution.

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8adYP TIL in 2008, a Swedish amateur photographer, Tomas Langton, accidentally helped solve the murder of a 10 year old girl when randomly testing his new camera. He photographed the victim, Engla Hoglund, at 2:16pm and the killer following in his car, 42 year old Anders Eklund, one minute later at 2:17pm
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