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TIL the FBI estimates that there are between twenty five and fifty serial killers operating throughout the United States at any given time

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WGwX TIL redheads are called “rangas” in Australia, ranga being short for “orangutang”.
XZG6 TIL: Shazam has been around since 2002. Before smartphones you used to have to dial 2580 to Shazam a song. Shazam would then text you with what song it was.
R7Dyj TIL that in 1939, after the German invasion of Poland, the Kingdom of Tonga was among the first to declare war against Germany. Subsequently, in result of a public campaign the society of Tonga funded two Spitfire fighter aircrafts. The Kingdom was ruled at that time by queen Sālote Tupou III
1ErP TIL of Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who competed at the Barcelona Olympics; her age was given as 17, but she was missing her front teeth and may have been as young as 10. Aside from an Olympic torch relay, her subsequent life and whereabouts are unknown.
kOQQm TIL Lois Duncan the author of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and many other teen horror and suspense novels in the 70's and 80's had a teenage daughter that became a victim of an unsolved murder in 1989. Duncan essentially stopped writing in her genre and the murder is still unsolved today.