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TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.

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NAeQ TIL that the city of Fairbanks, Alaska holds the world’s largest rechargeable battery, which powers the whole city during outages.
nW9xP TIL Forcing your eyes to work harder doesn’t increase the strength of eye muscles so wearing lenses doesn’t increase your dependence on glasses. if one eye is weaker, your brain is trained to use the stronger eye and the weaker eye could turn into lazy eye
QNWed TIL women POWs imprisoned by the Japanese on Sumatra in 1943-44 created an orchestra using only their voices, and managed to perform 3 concerts in captivity. The orchestra ended less than a year later, after more than half of the members died and the other half became too weak to sing.
9wLLX TIL In 2000, three Scottish sisters took out a 1 million pound insurance policy in the event one of them immaculately conceived the second coming of Christ. They paid £100 a year until 2006 when the insurance company canceled the policy.
946B TIL that the poorest place in the USA (Allen, SD) is also the place in North America that is farthest from any ocean.