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TIL An eight year old boy in India is the worlds youngest known serial killer

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w5Ao TIL Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany, due to the difficulty importing Coca Cola syrup
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xVL0b TIL that George Lucas tried to get the rights to make a Flash Gordon movie in the late 1970s. He was denied, so instead he decided to make his own sci-fi movie called Star Wars