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TIL Secret Story is a Portuguese reality show similar to Big Brother except all the houseguests have a secret. In 2011 a man was arrested under suspicion of being a serial killer known as the Lisbon Ripper after his son applied to be on the show with the secret that his dad was the Lisbon Ripper.

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