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TIL John Wayne Gacy met and took a photo with First Lady Rosalynn Carter with the secret service’s approval

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5YaZ8 TIL between 1990 and 1998 the population of water voles in the UK dropped from 2.2 million to just 354k or 750k, depending on the source.
69pZW TIL there’s a world surfing championship for dogs
9wOvM TIL Russian mathematician and Fields Medalist Vladimir Voevodsky was expelled from Moscow State University for not attending classes and failing academically. He then got a PhD from Harvard despite no degree and having never applied after being recommended based on several independent publications.
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.
VvZG TIL that baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb, with the largest embryo eating all but one of its siblings.