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TIL in 2006 FBI warned of KKK members in the police force

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Ooy06 TIL: Thor Christiansen, a Serial Killer who was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a shot to the head. She recognised him months later in a bar and reported him to police. Law enforcement then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders that had a similar MO.
lPL5 TIL a company called Eidos is working on a mask that would allow you to enhance your hearing and vision to “superhuman” levels.
kJPDm TIL that flags fly at half-mast or half-staff to make room for an invisible flag of death to be flown above it.
Ooera TIL that the RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, rammed a U-Boat and sunk it, making it the only merchant ship in World War I to have sunk an enemy vessel.
N7Ld6 TIL about Xenophon Zolotas, a Greek scholar and politician, who gave two speeches in English to the IMF using nothing but Greek loanwords.