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TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims

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Yp1LP TIL that brake and tail lights are red because this colour has the highest wavelength in the colour spectrum making it visible in longer distances, even with fog.
aw0D9 TIL Katie Holmes’ divorce from Tom Cruise has a clause that states that she can’t officially “date” someone until 2017
R77Ol Vaccination is underway for the 2017-2018 seasonal flu, and next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people.
kJVpm TIL in the 1960s Australian researchers brought four VW Beetles to Antarctica as their main mode of transportation across the barren frozen continent.
oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.