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TIL that the Zodiac Killer supposedly wrote a complaint to the San Francisco Chronicle that the 1973 movie "Badlands" was "murder-glorification" and asked the paper to cut it's advertisements

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kOlWg TIL: With over 11 million words, Devta is the world's longest novel. It was serialised monthly in a Pakistani suspense magazine for 33 years.
rRo11 TIL leopard slugs have 27,000 teeth.
BgpWd TIL about the Storegga Slide. In about 6200BCE, structural failures in the Norwegian continental shelf triggered submarine landslides with 3500km³ of debris, causing extreme tsunamis in the North Sea. A similar event today would be catastrophic for many coastal cities of Britain and mainland Europe.
4kOea TIL that in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, instead of a rush hour, they have what locals call a "rush minute", owing to the fact that the city is not connected to the rest of Canada by road and has a population of roughly 7,000 people who mostly work for the government with similar schedules.
RKjw TIL Ray Bradbury initially titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but while he inquired local fire station about what temperature book paper burnt at, the firemen actually burnt a book and replied that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”.