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TIL USA has produced 76% of the world’s known serial killers in the 20th century, and around 85% since 1980.

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wxME TIL that Ashley Madison website was free to register but charged $20 for deleting your profile and still didn’t delete your credit card records
5V5nk TIL Ancient Greek used to ostracize potential tyrants with a vote, essentially forcing them to leave the city
W8GX TIL that Finland once accidentally built a lighthouse on the Swedish side of their border. Instead of simply transferring the lighthouse to the Swedes, the two countries redrew the border, so that the lighthouse ended up on Finnish soil.
Bgr5D TIL a commercial for the Cocoa Pebbles cereal led Hulk Hogan to sue the company. The commercial had a character named Hulk Boulder fighting Flinstones characters. He claimed it damaged his reputation and used his image. Hogan and the company came to an agreement to never show the ad again.
4orJ TIL that in 2009, a billboard in Odessa, Ukraine crashed in the fog, making it look like the sky was showing an error message