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TIL that before the invention of Garden Gnomes, wealthy British landowners would hire people to live in their gardens as "Ornamental Hermits".

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9YB6r TIL that serial killer Randy Woodfield was actually drafted by the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers but was cut due to a series of indecent exposure arrests. He would go on to become the I-5 Killer and is thought to have been responsible for over 40 murders along Interstate 5 from 1980-81
kODP7 TIL that there is a small increase in number of heart attacks globally at the start of daylight savings time in spring (when people lose an hour's sleep) and a corresponding decrease at the end
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KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.
69bl8 TIL that Burt Bacharach put Cilla Black through at least 29 takes of “Alfie” in his search for the perfect recording. Producer George Martin finally intervened to say he already had it in take 4, and that was the version released.