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TIL only 113 people have served on the US Supreme Court since 1789.

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KYD0G TIL laboratories practiced mouth pipetting when accessioning specimens “until the 1970s, when cheap mechanical pipettes became available.”
O9j4 TIL That in the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller would delete the computer’s entire hard drive.
QJxQd TIL of Israel Keyes, a serial killer who had no preferred victim type and never killed in the same area twice. For one murder, he flew to Chicago and rented a car to get to Vermont, then used a murder kit he’d hidden two years earlier. When shopping, he kept his phone off and only paid in cash.
rNNQe TIL that trees communicate with each other
VxVD TIL Brooke Shields was a full frontal nude model for the Playboy publication “Sugar and Spice” at 10 years of age.