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TIL A man bought a motel for the sole purpose of spying on guests having sex. He chose the motel becuase the attic was tall enough to stand up in. He cut peepholes from the attic into some rooms disguised as ceiling vents, watched guests for decades, keeping detailed notes of what he saw.

J18yj TIL that a young Joe Pesci introduced to one another the musicians that would later make the band "The Four Seasons". Joe was also a musician, and even released a 1968 album "Little Joe Sure Can Sing!"
0wjW1 TIL a man convinced more than 7 women to have sex with him by claiming to be a doctor and telling them they had a disease that could only be cured through sex. Some paid him for the sex. The case led to a law making obtaining sex through false info a felony.
b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
YJ7d TIL that in 2008, Harvard created their own version of the classic Food Pyramid that more accurately reflected dietary science.
R5mLw TIL Sarah Rector Became The ‘Richest Black Girl In America’ In The Early 20th Century By the time she turned 18, Sarah Rector's net worth was estimated at over $1 million — about $28 million today. And it all came from undesirable land that the federal government gave her.