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TIL of Francisca Rojas, the first criminal to be caught using fingerprints as evidence

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OoWm4 TIL that Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has one of the biggest collection of videogames in the libraries'world, from PS3/X360 till next gen. Users can loan them and play at home for free and they also send them to other US libraries with Interlibrary Loan service.
LQoPP TIL: the child voice actors for Bluey are kept secret
loEMK TIL We rely on bees for roughly 1/3rd of all crop pollination
16kQ8 TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.
e0bOJ TIL Influential Evangelical minister Jerry Falwell Sr. railed against MLK jr, staunchly opposed allowing black and white students to attend the same school, and founded a private school for whites only. He never apologized for his racial views but he did become less public about them in later years