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Today I learned Three Stooges made a hairspray commercial!

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4k6Og TIL that It is believed that the idea of a ladder was used over 10,000 years ago. Cave paintings of them were discovered in a cave in Spain. Whoever invited the first ladder is still unknown.
neGkP TIL about the "Murder Castle", a building owned by the serial killer H. H. Holmes. This complicated building included maze-like hallways, seemingly leading to nowhere airtight rooms used as elaborate torture rooms, acid vats a crematorium and more. It is suspected that Holmes had around 200 victims.
0wW8N TIL that Date Stone Beetles females mate with their first son, proceed to eat him and his siblings of which all happen to be male, and then produce a second bigger batch of eggs, of which 90% are females.
djv7 TIL after Officials in Richmond, California, learned that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided to pay them to behave. With individual coaching, health care coverage and a monthly stipend, murders decreased from 62 to only 11 last year
0w95j TIL Harvard majors are called "concentrations," and before WWII, students often innocently referred to the school as "The Concentration Camp"