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TIL Pickleball is the official sport of Washington State, and was invented here in 1965.

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pLe TIL that since 1993, more than 700 girls and women have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the Northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, which has the highest female murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico or the US. It’s being called “femicide”.
x4RB TIL In 2013, A man set up a stand near Central Park selling black and white artwork for $60. The man ended up being Banksy and the original authenticated artwork sold at the stall was valued at over $200,000 each.
kYa1 TIL Rain Man (Kim Peek), was the only savant known to science who could read 2 pages of a book simultaneously – one with each eye.
EYxX TIL the FBI estimates that at any given time, there are from 35 to 50 active serial killers in the U.S.
XQxX TIL Milhouse Van Houten from The Simpsons was named after Richard Milhous Nixon, because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”