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TIL Victoria's Secret bras have RFID tracking technology in them, so they can collect information on you as you wear them for their own marketing analysis.

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vJQL TIL Israel Keyes, serial killer, would travel via plane from Alaska to the the continental U.S. to bury murder kits. He would return years later to retrieve them and kill at random. He had no victim profile
xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14
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