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TIL Graham Young, known as the Teacup Poisoner, was released from a mental institution despite informing a psychiatric nurse that he intended to kill one person for every year he had been incarcerated

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KvQw TIL Netherlands being smaller in area than West Virginia, and having the fourth highest population density in the world, is still our planet’s second largest exporter of food and agriculture products, after USA.
kO6b1 TIL that there is patch of snow in Scotland that has disappeared only a total of seven times in the last 300 years. Nicknamed the Sphinx it is said to be the most permanent and closely studied patch of snow in the British Isles.
nW4mo TIL that there were Olympic medals for painters, sculptors, writers and musicians until 1952.
KYjOQ TIL that NASA is working on a unique time zone for the Moon, called "Coordinated Lunar Time", because time moves slightly faster on the Moon than on Earth.
woDyW TIL the inventor of Vaseline was so convinced of its healing powers that he ate a spoonful every day and had himself covered in it when he got sick. He lived to 96