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TIL: A convincing study shows that business leaders and serial killers share a mindset

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D1lyv TIL Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. His first novel was published in 1950, and he died in 1992. This means he wrote aprox 1 book per month for 42 straight years.
JYVDB TIL Washington DC isn't in a state
gBKD TIL Cars in Germany are given a colored sticker corresponding to the emission level of the vehicle. These stickers allow or restrict a driver’s ability to drive through certain environmental zones of the country.
N70eN TIL that Led Zeppelin twice attempted to put Neil Armstrong on album covers and failed by mistakenly using Frank Borman and Buzz Aldrin instead of Neil Armstrong photo on Led Zeppelin II & Physical Graffiti respectively.
Z8G7p TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.