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TIL of a pedophile who was arrested after setting his phone to the largest possible font and then sending text messages about molesting children. He did this while on a crowded airplane.

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X0A5D TIL about Wadi-us-Salaam (lit: The Valley of Peace) - located in Najaf, Iraq. It's the biggest necropolis in the world. Daily burials have been on going for over 1,400 years, over 6 million people are buried there.
bBya TIL Everyone in the world has a common ancestor that lived 5000-10000 years ago
WkgYd TIL the word "mortgage" comes from an old French word used in Britain during the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge"
Wk6d4 TIL that the bullet that killed the longest confirmed sniper kill in history (3,540 m) flew for 10 second and and was flying for so long that the sniper had to take in the curvature of the Earth into account.
4XlGw TIL that the Hudson Bay Area in Canada has less gravity than the rest of the world and scientists do not know why.