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TIL: The horror-comedy movie Scream was based on the real-life case of the Gainesville Ripper

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E1kdx TIL the very first automation happened was via first Electronic Computer Colossus, to reduce the time for decoding World War II messages between Hitler & his Generals, from six weeks to six hours, at Bletchley Park in England.
rN15W TIL that the last woman to be executed by burning at the stake in England was not killed for witchcraft, but for counterfeiting coins, seen as a crime against the king, and therefore treason. Her husband was hanged for the same offence, and the women’s sentence was changed to hanging the year after.
K8dJ TIL that many baby animals are unwittingly “kidnapped” by people who assume they’re abandoned.
77pL TIL there is a 13 month calendar & that the Kodak company used it internally for 70 years.
R7jx8 TIL In 2016, exclusively to India, Indian arm of South Korea's LG Electronics Inc started selling a TV that would repel mosquitoes. It uses ultrasonic waves that are silent to humans but cause mosquitoes to fly away.