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TIL Josef Fritzl, a guy who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years, got hundreds of love letters following his arrest

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7rvJM TIL That the Titanic had only about 2/3 of its maximum capacity of people when it sank and more than 1000 extra people could have died had it been at maximum capacity
YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
yVdMe TIL: about Drag hunting, it is conducted in a similar manner to fox hunting, with a field of mounted riders following a pack of foxhounds. The primary difference is the hounds are trained to hunt a prepared scent trail laid by dragging a material soaked in aniseed or another strong smelling scent.
LkBNd TIL "the Curse of Tippecanoe" is a pattern since 1840 of US presidents dying in office if elected in a year divisible by 20. The exceptions are Presidents Reagan and W. Bush, both of whom survived assassination attempts.
LX9r TIL that Cannabidiol, a chemical extract from cannabis, is the first nontoxic substance found to fight aggressive metatastic breast cancer cells.