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TIL A man who has killed more than 300 people and released from prison on good behavior is now a youtuber with over half a million subs

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kOraE TIL Ireland was a major hub for slavery in the 11th Century, with the Irish kidnapping people in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When slavery was banned in England, it impacted Ireland severely. One of the reasons why the Normans invaded Ireland was because of the Irish refusal to give up slavery.
1aPO7 TIL about the Chicago Spire, a planned 2000 foot high skyscraper which would have been the highest building in the Americas, and 2nd tallest in the world. It would have looked like a "tall twisting tree" or "blade of grass." It was cancelled in 2008 due to the economic crisis.
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
oRWEE TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
x6LxB TIL on 1993, at 17, David Hahn, a young teenage nuclear radiation enthusiast, managed to create a neutron source in order to build a breeder reactor in his mother's backyard