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TIL Brothers Grimm didn't write "Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty" - they just collected the folk tales

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pkNp TIL Female serial killers typically kill people they know for money while male serial killers typically kill strangers for sex
0deGA TIL in October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Seed potatoes were grown in space using technology called quantum tubers developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combining with China’s agricultural techniques.
d8RmB TIL in the original opening sequence of “The Simpsons”, Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63, which represented the monthly cost of raising a child at the time.
9Wp7 TIL a black mayor was politically gridlocked, harassed by white police officers, illegally barricaded from city hall, and framed for murder in Tchula, Mississippi in 1981.
RYk4 TIL that a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the bombing of Hiroshima. He then returned to his home city of Nagasaki the next day which would suffer the same fate. He is the only reported “double survivor” of both Little Boy and Fat Man.