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TIL the Airbus 340 is the only airline passenger jet with no accidents

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P17ew TIL about Liu Mingwu, a Chinese beggar and serial killer known as "The Beggar Killer," who attacked and killed at least 23 people, predominantly other beggars, across various cities in China between 2001 and 2002. He claimed he did it because they were "dirty and smelly". He was later executed.
KOEOE TIL that Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered
BgwrW TIL Elvis Presley’s last name should’ve been Wallace
6Evem TIL when it snowed for the first recorded time in Miami in 1977 a meteorologist initially thought it was a coke-drop that had gone wrong, until realizing that the flakes were snow.
RaBQ TIL the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars includes at least 253,330 brain injuries, 1,700 amputations, and 6,656 deaths on the U.S. side alone.