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Today I Learned that a motorcycle gang will come at the beck and call of a child abuse victim in Arizona.

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e0V0L TIL That Preying Mantis do not follow you with their eyes. The pupil that seems to watch you is an effect generated by their nonmoving eyes when your field of vision lines up with one of the many cone shaped structures that make up their eye allowing you to see down the hole.
78yO TIL Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language, died a week after Steve Jobs
XE7gk TIL that South Pole so much colder than the North Pole because it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, which itself sits on a continent. The surface of the ice sheet at the South Pole is more than 9,000 feet in elevation--more than a mile and a half above sea level.
69gZX TIL - 1939 - The US had two thanksgivings because shop owners were afraid of losing 7 days of shopping - The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings
R5Yx7 TIL about the disturbing murder of Bridget Cleary, an Irish woman who was murdered by her husband (reportedly through immolation) because he thought she was a changeling (a type of fairie from Irish mythology) and that killing her would bring his wife back.