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TIL that Ernest Hemingway was a fantastic cook famed for his pan-fried hamburgers and bacon wrapped trout.

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neGkP TIL about the "Murder Castle", a building owned by the serial killer H. H. Holmes. This complicated building included maze-like hallways, seemingly leading to nowhere airtight rooms used as elaborate torture rooms, acid vats a crematorium and more. It is suspected that Holmes had around 200 victims.
wDg6 TIL 40% of all Wikipedia vandalism is detected by a single bot. It has only 0.1% false positives.
PYMg TIL : A cinema in London have hired ‘cinema ninjas’ to discipline people that talk through films…
NXMrP TIL itacolumite is a rare, naturally-occurring bendable rock. Scientists are not 100% sure why the rock can bend, but postulate that it may have something to do with it being made of quartz which forms crystalline structures capable of leaving substantial air gaps in the rock.
X060j TIL some U.S. police departments have adopted policies of rejecting new applicants if they score too high on their IQ tests