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TIL people worry about kids eating lead paint chips, not because kids are stupid and will eat anything, but because lead is sweet like candy.

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5yvD TIL serial killer Pedro López, who killed over 300 girls, was released on $50 bail in 1998. He is currently free.
a8JBZ TIL Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write ‘America the Beautiful’ after reaching the summit of Pike’s Peak in Colorado
pxa4 TIL in ‘91, 8 people were sealed inside a 3 acre dome. The sealed structure housed 7 ecosystems: ocean, desert, savannah, rainforest, marsh, an area of intensive agriculture and a human habitat. The project was designed to see whether humans could survive and adapt.
REBl TIL that there are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th Century.
4ke9a TIL that one man has the largest video game collection in the world with over 24,000 video games. It has an estimated value of about 2.1 million dollars.