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TIL about the Atlas vampire, an unsolved murdercase in Stockholm 1932

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eppdn TIL virtually every delivery app driver in North America is uninsured and could lose everything if they get in an accident while working
8PmG TIL there are 3 power grids in the continental US, eastern, western and Texas.
9YQrB TIL despite a heart condition and arthritis that forced him to use a cane, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the assault on Utah Beach, becoming the only general to land with the first wave of D-Day. When his craft drifted a mile off target, he told his men, "We’ll start the war from right here!"
GYgnQ TIL that the 1904 Olympic marathon involved a runner who drove 11 miles to the finish line, a runner who was poisoned by his coaches, a runner who was chased by dogs for one mile, and a runner who ate a rotten apple, took a nap and still finished fourth.
LQPmr TIL that Marion Tinsley, the greatest checkers player of all time, only lost 7 games in 45 years, 2 of which were against a computer. After he retired, it was said that the world champion title would be “worthless as long as he was alive”