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TIL of Kim Stenger, a criminal law researcher in Ohio, who is the world's only living person with no sense of touch

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j6LjM TIL that, after spending 5 days reviewing the case of the infamous "Toy Box Killer", the FBI Agent assigned to the case, Patty Rust, went home, took out her service pistol, and shot herself in the head.
xZ5D TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis
wog1E TIL that the longest place name in the world is in New Zealand and it has 85 letters. (“Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu”)
m1n4M TIL in November 2022 Edwin Castro of California won a world-record $2.05b in the state’s Mega Millions, the largest ever for a national lottery. The ticket cost $2.
OkgR TIL that in a Massachusetts prison, there is a program that partners Inmates with abused Stray Dogs