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TIL when a serial killer broke into a woman's apartment, choked her roommate out & started choking her, she let her body go limp & pretended to pass out. While he was preparing to kill the roommate, she jumped of out a window & called for help. The roommate was saved & the serial killer got caught

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8aE54 TIL Earth is the only known planet where fire can burn. No other planet has enough oxygen.
5Y1Xk TIL that before Miguel de Cervantes wrote part one of Don Quixote at the age of 58, he lived in exile in Italy, fought in the battle of Lepanto where he lost the use of his left hand, was captured and ransomed by pirates, excommunicated by the church and was imprisoned for accounting irregularities.
GAw8j TIL that Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo - today would have been Stephen’s 83rd birthday
X0VV8 Til that the first chemical fertiliser was manufactured from dinosaur dung
E14d7 TIL In 1946, the US agreed to turn over all of its nuclear weapons on the condition that all other countries pledge not to produce them. The Soviets reject it.