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TIL the term "Corinthian leather" is meaningless, and was invented to sell Chrysler luxury cars (more info in comments)

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4XKAb TIL an Assistant US Attorney focusing on sex predators was found in his car hundreds of miles away with 36 stab wounds including on his back and scrotum. In the blood there was an unidentified fingerprint. FBI ruled it suicide.
kOj7g TIL com­pos­ing and ar­ran­ging mu­sic is partly ge­net­ically de­term­ined. Up to 30 percent of a musician's ability to compose and arrange music can be explained by genes in the cerebellar LTD pathway.
grANW TIL Dina Sanichar was raised by wolves in the Uttar Pradesh jungle in India until hunters found him in 1867 at the age of 6. He never learned to interact with another human being.
BEjL TIL that a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession.
GGOE TIL World of Warcraft once had a “virtual plague” due to a bug, which epidemiologists used as a research model for real-world epidemics