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e0LZE TIL that Emily Edith Smith believed she encountered Jack the Ripper in November 1892 (four years after his final victim). The girl was attacked by a strange man with a knife in Whitechapel. Smith kicked him in the groin and fled, and his description fit the Ripper's profile, but the trail went cold.
LkW8V TIL that a British officer who fought in WW1 was struck by lightning 4 times in his lifetime. The third strike paralyzed him completely and eventually killed him. The fourth one struck his grave, shattering his tombstone.