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TIL People Used to Send Children Through the US Mail

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YYG7 TIL that the Islamic “Assassins” stuck into Saladin’s tent and left a death threat and piece of cake on his chest as he was sleeping. He then made a peace deal.
9YvG6 TIL that to properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.
M7rOW TIL about the 1955 Le Mans disaster. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history. Large pieces of debris flew into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Levegh, and injuring nearly 180 more
b1l4 TIL of ‘Genie’, a child who was kept in a blacked out room by her father for the first 13 years of her life
9BlX TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.