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TIL that if you Google image the number 241543903 you’ll end up with picturs of heads in freezers

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0A0p TIL: Margaret Anne Cargill was a philanthropist born into one of the wealthiest families in the world. She gave away more than $200M during her life, always anonymously, and provided that after her death all her wealth go to charity. In 2011 her assets were liquidated, resulting in a $6B donation.
kO8we TIL in the 1990s, the Galapagos Conservancy launched Project Isabela, an all out war against 250,000 goats in the Galapagos Islands to save the dwindling population of Galapagos tortoises, and involved snipers picking goats off from helicopters. It ended up restoring the population of the tortoises.
9YGo6 TIL Oregon has designated an official state microbe — brewer’s yeast
9YrvQ TIL of The Golden State Killer, a serial killer who committed more than 120 alleged burglaries, 50 assaults, and 13 murders in California. His operated from 1974-1986. There was a 5-year gap between his last 2 murders. He would phone and taunt his victims. A suspect was arrested in 2018.
gnZA TIL that the owner of a Utah video store was able to beat an obscenity charge over movies he rented out after his lawyer obtained data from cable and satellite television providers showing that area residents were disproportionately large consumers of pay-per-view pornography.