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TIL in 1971, a mother reported to Houston police a Plymouth GTX, a vehicle her missing son was last seen in. She provided the license plate. No one looked into it. It belonged to Dean Corll, and his killing spree lasted 2 more years.

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0AxA TIL During the Second World War, the U.S. Army discovered that colorblind soldiers could distinguish camouflaged targets better than their counterparts with color vision could.
e04n TIL that a man from Williamson County, Texas was jailed for 25 years for the brutal murder of his family while prosecutors withheld DNA evidence which proved him innocent. M. Morton is now free from jail and the prosecutors still hold their judiciary positions in the department
OmGX TIL on Jose Fernandez’s 4th attempt to defect from Cuba to the US, a person fell overboard. Jose jumped into the waters and saved the person. He recalled, “I don’t remember much, just diving in the water and swimming towards this woman. As I was getting close, I could see it was my mother”
11or TIL: The earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the crust. Time dilation.
YpeOP TIL that Lego bricks helped solve a twenty-three year old cold case murder in 2014. The murderer allowed his child to play with the bricks in another room while murdering his victim, and fingerprints on a brick that was left behind allowed the police to connect the dots to the killer.