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TIL that in 1960, three teenagers were brutally murdered while camping at Finland's Lake Bodom, and the case remains one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes.

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Ja64 TIL that Mars Candy corp, makers of Snickers, Three Muskateers, Milky Way, Twix ect., cut the size of their candy bars by 11% this year. They referred to it not as cutting size but “cutting calories”
GARng TIL dyslexic World Memory Champion Dominic O’ Brien set a Guinness World Record by memorizing 2808 playing cards (54 packs) after looking at each card only once. He made only 8 errors.
B9AK TIL The last surviving member of the crew that bombed Hiroshima hosted Japanese students at his home and commented “The Japanese you know today are not the Japanese we fought during WW2. The Japanese today are nice people.”
DQm6r TIL when airship USS Akron tried to moor in San Diego, the sunlight warmed and lightened helium. As the ship became uncontrollably light, 3 crews were carried further aloft. Only one survived.
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