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pY85e TIL, the reason for many serial Killers "having three names", such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.
n0Rr TIL when the islands of St Kilda were evacuated, the local subspecies of house mouse quickly went extinct as it depended so closely on human settlement
6EyQQ TIL about Bolivian festival Tinku. During this ritual, men and women from different communities will meet and begin the festivities by dancing. The women will then form circles and begin chanting while the men proceed to fight each other.
KYYlQ TIL Mark Twain declared that he discovered the right way to do an autobiography by talking about whatever interested him at the moment rather than writing it chronologically. From his bed, Twain dictated nearly 2,000 pages of the book to his stenographer over three years
GAn94 TIL it's impossible to drive from North to South America because there are no roads between Panama and Colombia