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TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper said to one of his victims he was sorry for accidentally touching her breast, a few minutes before killing her

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78VPZ TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
N75m6 TIL after successfully winning the online poll to name the ISS module 'Colbert' after Stephen Colbert, NASA went with the eighth most popular name 'Tranquility'. To honor his winning, they named the new station treadmill Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).
b9AJQ TIL that in 2001, in an attempt to mitigate the HIV and AIDS pаndemic, King Mswati III of Eswatini (Africa's only absolute monarch) banned sexual relations for girls under 18 for a 5-year period. 2 months later, he chose a 17 year-old to become his 13th wife. He was fined a cow, which he duly paid
9wJ9G TIL in 2020, the movie Palm Springs broke the record for the highest sale of a film from the Sundance Festival by exactly $0.69
yEaa TIL Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe