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TIL: Despite Overwhelming Evidence Against Him, John Wayne Gacy was never "Caught." Instead he folded under constant police surveillance which caused his mental state to deteriorate and cleared to air to his lawyer, who informed the police that he had killed thirty people

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6E0gW TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.
5Y6QP TIL that Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey are the names of mice who orbited the Moon on Apollo 17
epKQ6 TIL that in 1959, Claude Shannon, a mathematician from MIT demonstrated that machines can learn by experience using a mechanical mouse that can remember the previous paths that led to an artificial cheese in a maze.
yJ08 TIL in 1985 US Marshalls Service once sent “invitations” to the last known addresses of 5000 known fugitives saying they had won free tickets to a Redskins - Bengals game. When the “winners” arrived to pick up their tickets they were arrested by Deputy Marshals and DC Metropolitan Police officers.
4o6g TIL a Polish Wikipedia user got his entire city banned from editing for 3 days due to him posting pictures of penises to pages related to Catholicism and Polish politics