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TIL a journalist who reported on his own serial murders was caught when he including facts in his articles that only the killer would have known.

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DQQVe TIL Pierre Curie exposed his own arm to radium salts for 10 hours. He studied the wound, which resembled a burn, day by day. After 52 days a permanent grey scar remained.
BPyr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
VBLdk TIL that among NYC attractions, Grant’s Tomb consistently drew more visitors than the Statue of Liberty in the 1890s and early 1900s.
6En5Z Til that Beethoven has "curious tempo selections" in his works that musicians today generally adapt the tempo from what was written. Historians believe in 1815, a deafening Beethoven was gifted an inaccurate early metronome by J. Mälzel that is likley to have been sabotaged/broken in a fit of rage.
OG9L6 TIL: Human breast milk is kosher according to Jewish doctrine