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TIL the French nobility is still around and larger than before the Revolution

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ajN9 TIL Serial killers behave like bees. They commit crimes close to home, but far enough that neighbors don’t get suspicious. Similarly, bees collect pollen near the hive, but far enough that predators can’t find them. Scientists studied bee behavior and found algorithms police now use to catch felons
R7PjQ TIL that in 1996, an American citizen swam across a Chinese river into North Korea on a drunken dare. He got caught, was held and imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy, but was eventually released back to the U.S. He committed suicide a few weeks later.
R7AR6 TIL Bubble lights on a Christmas tree are filled with the low boiling solvent methylene chloride that boils and creates bubbles with the heat of a Christmas tree light bulb.
A4Jd TIL when AC/DC was accused of backmasking Satanic messages in “Highway To Hell”, guitarist Angus Young said “you didn’t need to play [the album] backwards, because we never hid [the messages]. We’d call an album Highway To Hell, there it was right in front of them.”
yVJg8 TIL that the tendency people have to overestimate how much others are noticing their appearance or actions is a social phenomenon known as the "spotlight effect".