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TIL that life has existed on Earth for over 80% of its existence, and was present from nearly the moment the Earth cooled.

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6E8PZ TIL in the summer of 2011, authorities were finally able to create a DNA profile of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and upload it to the FBI’s national database when vials of his blood, taken in 1978, were discovered previously untouched and forgotten in a Florida crime lab
Wknw9 TIL The Original Rudolph & Santa Puppets from 1964 were sold at auction for $368K to an anonymous bidder who subsequently donated them to the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts Museum
0dG8R TIL: The earliest citations of 'motherfucker' came from the Texas Court of Appeals’ account of the 1889 trial of Levy v. State, where witnesses describe a defendant being called a “God damned mother-fucking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.”
R5bB6 TIL that the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic likely had one week to live, two at most.
XrYQ TIL two Nazi submarines declined to surrender when Berlin fell and instead submerged for two months before landing in Argentina. One is said to have offloaded a Nazi officer before being detected.