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TIL there are more Norwegians in America than there are in Norway

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wWDP TIL that James Gordon Wolcott killed his family with a .22 long-barrel in 1967. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was later released and is now a psychology professor and chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at Millikin University, going by the name James St. James.
d5wK TIL when a Pediatrician was involved in a fiery car wreck and was pinned in his burning car, among the fire rescue crew that arrived to save him was a man whose life the doctor had saved 30 years earlier as an infant.
xbJ1 TIL A man noticed his food going missing so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year
5Ln9 TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.
j6BJE TIL the planet Venus has a "quasi-satellite" called 524522 Zoozve that looks like it orbits the planet but actually orbits the Sun. It's been co-orbital with Venus for the last 7,000 years but most likely will be ejected in 500 years