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TIL the ice cream flavor Rocky Road was named after the October 1929 stock market crash, in the sense that "it will be a rocky road ahead"

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6E0vm TIL in 1957, a 23-year-old man murdered two police officers after they pulled him over for running a red light. 45 years later, he was caught when a print from the crime was matched to a 1956 burglary. He hadn’t committed any other crimes in the intervening years.
loWJ7 TIL about 'Franks Sign'. A diagonal crease in an ear lobe, which has been hypothesised to be a predictor of cardiovascular and coronary artery disease in older populations.
Y5vx TIL All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
vk6j TIL unskilled individuals tend to grossly overestimate their abilities while high-skilled individuals tend to believes that tasks they perform well at are easy for everybody, thus underestimating their abilities
nJJB TIL that no Pope has recognized St. Patrick as a Saint