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TIL The Golden State Killer was found after one of his cousins took a DNA test similar to 23 and Me

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KOOx6 TIL in 1968, Veterans Day was originally changed to the fourth Monday in October by President LBJ. It was changed back to November 11 in 1975 by President Gerald Ford.
gNgb TIL that John Carpenter offered Christopher Lee the roll of Dr. Loomis in the classic 1978 horror film Halloween. Lee declined due to the low pay, but later said that declining the role was his biggest career mistake.
MeLam TIL that J.K. Rowling wrote a real person into The Goblet of Fire. The girl was named Natalie McDonald, a Harry Potter fan who was dying of leukaemia while Rowling was still writing the book. You see her character as a first-year who dons the sorting hat and is sorted into Gryffindor.
XYpj TIL There are more slaves on Earth today than at any other time in history. Through forced labor, at or below subsistence wages, sex trafficking, forced marriages, etc, there are an estimated 27 Million slaves in today’s world
804L TIL William Hung of American Idol fame gave up his music career in 2011 to become a Technical Crime Analyst for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department