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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS

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ep66D TIL Luis "The Beast" Garavita, the world's most prolific serial killer, was sentenced to 1853 years in prison for the deaths of 193 children in Colombia, but his sentence was reduced to 22 years after he helped the police find many of the victims' bodies. He becomes eligible for parole this year.
5VJ8Q TIL Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt nearly died in a train accident in 1833. John Quincy Adams was also on the train
P1exG TIL because of tidal forces, the moon completes one revolution every 655 hours. So one "side" of the Moon is always facing the Earth, and the other "side" is always facing away from the Earth. On the surface of the Moon, you would experience 327.5 hours of sunlight and 327.5 hours of darkness.
4YVo TIL That since 1990 the United States has added more acres of forest than it has lost, with almost 20 million new acres of forest land added in the last 2 decades.
BgVox TIL a BBC documentary unveiled the extreme torture of elephants in Indian temples.