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TIL that the hardened, outer wing on beetles is called Elytra

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9oZr TIL of “The Lipstick Killer”, William Heirens. In the 1940s he was convicted of killing 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan, Frances Brown and Josephine Ross. Heirens got his nickname because he wrote, “For heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself,” on Brown’s wall in lipstick.
Rvx7 TIL a UK village redesigned traffic flow in its town center to eliminate all traffic signs and signals. Since the redesign, the accident rate dropped, economic activity increased, and one citizen noted, “I think we’re all being kinder to one another.”
4wyw TIL there’s an ancient Greek play where the women of Greece end a war by withholding sex until the men of Greece agree to peace.
EgQVV TIL The UK Has More Speed Cameras Than US
jZXj TIL: The loudest recorded sound from a human was produced by 48-year-old teaching assistant Jill Drake. When told she was the loudest person in the world, Jill explained “I knew I was loud, but not that loud.”