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TIL Of John Bunting, a serial killer who convinced his friends to kill innocent people by telling them they were pedophiles.

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vM4B TIL that Dr Seuss’s first book was rejected 20+ times. He was on his way to burn it when he ran into a college friend who had just been made children’s editor at Vanguard Press. Seuss later said, ‘If I’d been going down the other side of Madison Ave, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today.’
oBQrA TIL that Mr. Rogers responded to every letter he recieved from children who wrote to him
WpQL TIL the largest centipede which ever existed was tall enough to rear up and look a human in the eyes.
W7rB9 TIL of Nishiyama onsen keiunkan, the longest running inn, founded over 1300 years ago
J1mmB TIL The often-quoted low IQ of developing countries is based on bogus and misleading data