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TIL Einstein wrote a letter to Tesla congratulating him on his life’s work in 1931

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dDEA7 TIL about Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. AKA the Golden State Killer. He is a former police officer who was a serial killer and serial rapist responsible for three crime sprees across California from 1974 to 1986 that the press thought were by different people. He was finally caught in 2018.
4X5pJ TIL When a thoroughbred horse gives birth and dies, or doesn't produce milk, their foal is given to a 'Nurse Mare'. It's a horse that has been bred solely to be able to raise the expensive foal. The Nurse Mare's foal is destroyed or sold as meat.
kOWR1 TIL Valdosta High School in GA is winningest football program in the USA ever. 900+ wins, 27 loses, 34 ties.
QJDOk TIL that the trick from "Office Space" where they stole tiny fractions of a cent from a large number of transactions and put it into their own bank accounts is called 'salami slicing'
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").