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TIL so-called "Son of Sam" laws are designed so that criminals are unable to take advantage of the notoriety of their crimes. Such laws often authorize the state to seize money earned from deals such as book/movie biographies and paid interviews and use it to compensate the criminal's victims.

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LkWNr TIL- Dr Allan Zarkin was so proud of the caesarian section he performed, he carved his initials onto his patient's abdomen. She sued the hospital for $5.5m
R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.
KOOwB TIL After Rapper Tupac Shakur's Was Cremated, Some Of His Ashes Were Purportedly Mixed With Marijuana And Smoked By His Rap Group 'Outlawz'
R7L86 TIL: The British nuclear fuel processing plant Sellafield is so contaminated that pigeons that roosted there and pooped in someone's garden, polluted the garden so much the garden had to be dug up and treated as nuclear waste.
ZpvRB TIL John F Kennedy was a WW2 war hero. In 1943 the torpedo bost he was in command of was struck by a Japanese destroyer. When the boat sank, Kennedy swam a critically injured crew member 3.5 miles to shore. They were rescued by writing a message on a coconut husk.