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TIL that an inmate serving a life term for molesting and killing a 10-year-old girl named Katie got "Katie's Revenge" tattooed across his forehead by other inmates.

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VBkrQ TIL of the SS Birma, which steamed to aid The Titanic. They arrived too late to help, but held a memorial with a British flag they created themselves, and also took photographs of icebergs in the vicinity of the sinking.
p81A4 TIL the electronic toll system in Portugal can be used as payment at many parking lots, gas stations and even some McDonald’s drive throughs
8app4 TIL that in this picture taken 3 years ago, the combined net worth of these internet/tech executives were worth $200B. Today, just the two people at the front ends (Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) are combined worth over $220B.
XW7k TIL An American NASA scientist has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over eight months, the evidence against him being one US dollar bill.
ADLV4 TIL Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk, almost wasn't able to get back in the capsule as his suit had expanded in the vacuum of space. Many problems plagued the mission including a poor landing 240mi off course forcing the 2 man crew to survive for 2 days in the freezing wilderness.