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TIL there was a German serial killer who lived in a cave and killed 964 people

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Qd9p TIL that some aboriginal languages have no words for left/right. As a result, instead of ordering a sequence of images showing someone getting older from left to right, like English speakers would, they order them from east to west, regardless of what way they are facing themselves.
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