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TIL that psychopaths convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have distinct brain structure

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1666P TIL since the 1st generation Dodge Viper has no exterior door handles, one has to unzip vinyl windows to open the Viper's doors when the top and windows are in place.
Y7Yxr TIL the first recorded penalty for illegal parking was death, followed by impalement outside one’s home.
kJjZd TIL Secret Story is a Portuguese reality show similar to Big Brother except all the houseguests have a secret. In 2011 a man was arrested under suspicion of being a serial killer known as the Lisbon Ripper after his son applied to be on the show with the secret that his dad was the Lisbon Ripper.
X9aj TIL - the ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of Cyrene, proved that the earth was round in 240 B.C. and also came up with latitude/longitude and was able to calculate the earth’s circumference within 2%.
QNoJp TIL that in October 2017, 170 people in Madagascar were killed and thousands were infected by the Black Death in the largest modern outbreak of the plague.