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TIL that the serial killer Harvey Glatman was presenting himself as a photographer for pulp fiction magazines to find his victims and take photos of them tied before they even knew that they were kidnapped.

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jaGj TIL That Florida is a gepgraphical oasis. It sits at the perfect latitude for a desert, and if it weren’t a peninsula, it would potentially be as dry as the Sonoran or Sahara.
GYvK5 TIL that the movie "Titanic" cost more to make than the actual ship
mPWv TIL that if space were full of air, the sun would be louder than a train horn from 3 feet away
4aXX TIL that Google had to change the unlock pattern to require four connecting dots instead of three because Steve Jobs insisted that if users could connect the bottom three dots of the grid to unlock their phone, it would mimic the iPhone’s patented slide-to-unlock feature
loJEa TIL after the big bang only hydrogen and helium along with trace amounts of lithium and beryllium were created. The other 86 elements found in nature were all created by nuclear reactions inside stars.