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TIL that when Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper responsible for 13 murders, was arrested, police found he was wearing a v-neck sweater as underwear with his legs going through each sleeve.

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xVxok TIL that one reason Lyndon B. Johnson did not run for re-election was because a study he commissioned had predicted he would die at 64 and thus may not make it through a 2nd term. True enough, he would die on 22 January 1973 at 64, 2 days after what would have been the end of his 2nd term.
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pYype TIL That platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin--where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.