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TIL the man that (probably) holds the record for the most burglaries committed was a hermit that lived in the Maine woods and avoided human contact for almost 30 years

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OGlOY TIL After becoming deaf, Beethoven found that by connecting a metal rod to a piano and biting it, he could sense the instruments vibrations through his jawbone, enabling him to 'hear' his music
0bQp TIL that while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught.
nWBjB TIL that the idea that people harvest Adrenochrome from humans, subject of a wide-spread conspiracy theory, originated in Hunter S. Thompson's novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
XvG6 TIL the son of the voice actor who played the demon in ‘The Exorcist’ killed his entire family and then himself
rN0o4 Today I learned that Warsaw uses Mussels for water quality monitoring!