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TIL of Inmate Kevin Pullum, who escaped Twin Towers Correctional Facility by walking out of an employee exit 2 hours after being convicted of attempted murder. He used a newspaper photograph of actor Eddie Murphy to alter an identification badge.

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691jX TIL 19-year-old Matilda Scheurer, a Victorian-era factory worker, died after regular exposure to Scheele's Green, a popular arsenic-based dye used in various common items at the time. She died after allegedly vomiting green, while the whites of her eyes and her fingernails turned green.
9v87 TIL that a monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
m1a7E TIL that Windows 95 saved Southwest Airlines. When the CrowdStrike software glitch caused computers around the world to crash in 2024, Southwest was able to continue flying when rival airlines were grounded because it still uses Windows 95, which CrowdStrike didn't affect.
0wv0L TIL of Paul Michael Stephani, a serial killer known as the “weepy-voiced-killer”. After committing a murder, he would call the police and tearily confess to his crimes. He even said he would turn himself in, but never did. He was caught after one of his victims managed to fight him off.
p8bXN Today I learned that the heads on easter island actually also have torsos. In most pictures taken of these famous heads, it shows only the heads but hidden under the ground are its torso. Scientists have 'found interesting discoveries that further our knowledge of the Easter Island civilization'.