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TIL Béla Kiss (1877 - ??) was a was a Hungarian serial killer who is thought to have killed at least 24 people. Kiss pickled their corpses in alcohol and sealed them in the airtight metal drums that he kept on his property.

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DQv0j TIL the Japanese attacked California in WWII in the Bombardment of Ellwood
8an6V TIL the concept for having a “credit score” to judge if you could receive a loan didn’t exist until 1989
YV6B TIL of Allison Jenkins, who was convicted of felony murder of a police officer after the arresting police officer accidentally shot and killed his own partner
ADk5o TIL composer Earle Brown wrote a piece called “Twenty-Five Pages”, which consists of 25 un-numbered pages that can be played in any order, either side up, and each line read as treble or bass clef. It can be played by any number of pianos up to 25.
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