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TIL of Carlos Hathcock, the best sniper in the Vietnam war who killed Apache, a woman who tortured and skinned alive Marines

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Yp8gG TIL In the 1990s, an issue of the popular The Amazing Spider-Man that sold around 70,000 would be considered a failure. These days, what counts as a successful superhero book is anything that can sell a regular 40-60,000 copies. Most sell quite a bit less.
Q8pa TIL the government in Azerbaijan decided to spend close to 1 billion dollars on a song contest instead of giving their citizens clean water.
b9xmE TIL an Australian man typed every number from one to one million in words on his typewriter. It took him a total of 16 years to complete.
gMD4 TIL Everyone used to sleep twice in once night, they would wake up at midnight to have sex and read or tell stories.
w4Vo TIL: Extinguishing macho culture on oil rigs resulted in a company’s accident rate declining by 84%, while productivity, efficiency, and reliability increased beyond the industry’s previous benchmark