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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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wLDoY TIL Gambler's fallacy, the erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future. In 1913, in a game of roulette, the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, the probability of the sequence is 1 in 66.6 million.
6D7X TIL that officially the last words spoken on the moon were “God willing, we shall return.”, but were actually “All right, let’s get this mother out of here and go home.”.
XapP TIL we typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
4Zg6 TIL people’s teeth used to randomly explode in the 1800s due to bad fillings. Before the advent of mercury amalgam, a wide variety of metals were used to fill cavities. Using two different metals could create an electrochemical cell – effectively turning the whole mouth into a low-volt battery