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TIL, serial killer Todd Kohlhepp kidnapped 31-year-old Kala Brown and kept her inside of a shipping container for 65 days before she was rescued.

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XEBdR TIL In 1961, a handful of the world's top scientists gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, to give Dolphins LSD. They noted as soon as the dolphin on LSD had contact with another intelligent mammal, it wouldn't shut up.
aw990 TIL about a technology that takes carbon from the atmosphere and combines it with hydrogen (and water) to create a fuel that is chemically the same as gasoline. It can be used in all gas, jet fuel, and diesel engines.
b6O7a TIL that in 2013, a Humboldt State study determined that teens who listened to heavy metal in the 80s tended to have more adverse childhood experiences than two non-metal control groups but they were "significantly happier" in their youth and had "significantly fewer regrets" than the control groups
v1BGx TIL that Khutulun, the great-great-great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, was a fearsome warrior and a superb wrestler. It was said that she insisted on only marrying a man who could defeat her in wrestling, and that if she won, she would gain a horse from the loser. She accumulated a herd of 10,000.
JYYLj TIL that the Colonel hated KFC, he hated what they did to his recipe and when he left they even shut down a restaurant he created in his wifes name.