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TIL of former California Arson Investigator John Orr, a serial arsonist who likely set over 2000 fires over a ten year period.

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DQO0D TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.
xVxL5 TIL NBC executives hated the script for the Seinfeld episode, 'The Chinese Restaurant', and only agreed to allow it to be filmed after co-creator Larry David threatened to quit. It is now considered a ground-breaking episode of TV, and the best example of Seinfeld's 'show about nothing' premise
8alK8 TIL WW2 Black Sheep Squadron member Bill Case cheated death by randomly lowering the seat in his cockpit. In battle, a bullet from a Japanese Zero hit his cockpit and bloodied his scalp. If he had been sitting an inch higher, he would be dead. He went on to live another 52 years.
oOO7 TIL that George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are the only Presidents not to have held a political office when running for President of the United States
nWrRG TIL about the "hand of glory" made from the hand of a hanged man. Europeans once made candles from the fat of the corpse of a criminal and placed it in the hand of glory, believing it would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented