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TIL 17-year-old Peter Woodcock was Canada's youngest serial killer, After murdering 3 children between 1956 - 1957 he was sent to a Psychiatric Facility, years after he was given permission to leave unsupervised where he killed his last victim, He was classed as "The Killer They Couldn't Cure"

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lAyA TIL of Moko, a dolphin that helped rescue two beached whales in 2008. Humans had tried and failed to help the whales and were ready to give up, when the dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales and led them to safety
6gNZ TIL 45% of US homes are now equipped with DVRs (and the TV industry is, naturally, having to change how it operates)
9EmX TIL Google hired a Camel to map a desert for Google StreetView
R7Oe4 TIL the words "female" and "male" are etymologically unrelated. "Male" is derived indirectly from the Latin "masculus" meaning masculine, and "female" is derived from the Medieval Latin "femella".
bjVZ TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.