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TIL about Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, who chopped up her victims with an axe and turned them into soap and tea cakes

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mx5pY TIL Wi-Fi doesn’t stand for anything; it’s a made up word. "IEEE 802.11' didn't have much of a ring to it, and the industry association wanted a catchy name. They came up with wi-fi, and that's what's been used ever since.”
ZpK8G TIL that only 11 out of 195 recognised countries use Fahrenheit and 8 other countries use Fahrenheit and celcius. The rest of the world relies on celcius alone.
XEwlR TIL that after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his coffin was taken by train from New York to Washington DC and thousands gathered along the route to see it pass by. Paul Fusco photographed the crowds from the train.
r76M TIL there’s a line of 70 foot long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from San Francisco to New York City. They’re from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal gov’t in 1924 with 50’ tall towers with rotating gas-powered lights to aid lost pilots.
V94B TIL Tolkien didn’t mean to change the spelling of “Dwarfs” to “Dwarves”. He said it was a mistake that neither him nor his editors spotted.