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TIL that Thomas Harris based his character Hannibal Lecter on a real person, a doctor who murdered and dismembered his victims and treated patients while in prison. He spent nearly 40 years in prison before being released in 2000. He went back to practicing medicine.

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NW86 TIL there is a secret room inside Lincoln’s head in Mount Rushmore that was meant to be a vault of American history but was never finished by Rushmore’s sculptor because he died before it could be completed. More than 50 years later, it was partially completed by 4 generations of his family.
dDWwd TIL that despite the fact that 75% of the world's tornadoes happen in the US, the deadliest Tornadoes happen in Bangladesh. Of the 43 recorded Tornadoes with at least 100 people killed, 20 of them happened in what is now Bangladesh, compared to 15 in the US.
Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
OLr6 TIL there was a man-made mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females. The colony peaked at 2200 and from there declined to extinction. Once a tipping point was reached, the mice lost instinctual behaviors. Scientists extrapolate this model to humans on earth.
EgxZd TIL about Super mom cheetah ‘Mamma Sita’ she not only raises more pups to adulthood than any other cheetah, she even adopts them!