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TIL musician Rod Stewart spent 25 years constructing a massive model train set in his attic

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9YYQr TIL that serial killer Edmund Kemper has a reported IQ of 145
NXl4e Today I learned that mug shots in the 1800s used to be taken with hands over your chest for extra identification.
oDZ8 TIL Apollo 13, was filmed on board reduced gravity aircraft to show realistic weightlessness, but along with it’s combination of CGI and small scale props it lost “Best Visual Effects” to Babe at the Academy Awards.
VM1kG TIL David Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror."
1M7X TIL During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, four NOPD officers shot a man named Henry Glover, attacked civillians that came to his aid, and then set fire to his corpse. They are facing sentences of 25+ years each.