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xVlYk TIL Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day of the same year.
woxw8 TIL about the unsolved 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders in Bavaria, where six family members were killed with a mattock, and the murderer(s) lived on the farm with the corpses for days, feeding animals and lighting fires.
kO1Xm TIL Soundcloud was blocked in Turkey in 2014 because a user “haramzadeler” (“bastards” in Turkish) uploaded seven privately recored phonecalls between the now president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, politicians and businessmen, that revealed illegal activity and possible bribery.
VME4k TIL there were 30ft long sea cows called Steller's sea cows in the 1700s and we killed them.
oPgr TIL some spiders have natural metals built into their fangs. And one, the wandering spider, has fangtips that are almost entirely metal.