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TIL Serial Killer BTK worked for a home security company and installed systems in the homes of numerous citizens who were concerned about the murders he himself had committed.

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6Eo7Q TIL there’s a Hot Waitress Economic Index - an informal measure of the state of the economy that is compiled by counting the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses.
78DR7 TIL that in 1977, a former beauty queen kidnapped a mormon missionary for sex
690lm TIL on November 29th 2001, Mike Myers received the final letter George Harrison ever sent anybody. Being a fan of satire, George hand wrote the letter expressing his admiration for Mike’s Austin Powers movies. Mike received it on the set of Austin Powers 3 on the day George died.
R5BZ8 TIL that the 1904 Olympics were originally awarded to Chicago. But St. Louis, which was hosting the World’s Fair that year, threatened to undermine the Olympics with an even bigger sports competition. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, then moved the games to St. Louis.
NXwo6 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was a big fan of John Wilkes Booth