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TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would “live longer than the lot of them”. He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released. He died in 1938, three days after the last juror had died.

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E19eV TIL that a Japanese train barks like a dog and snorts like a deer in order to prevent collisions with animals on the railway
8ek4P TIL: In the USA during the 19th century, many little girls were given play ‘Death Kits’, which included a corpse doll and coffin. Girls would prepare the doll for viewing, place it in its coffin and conduct a play funeral.
oR5wR TIL In 1983 journalist and weekend NBC national news anchor Jessica Savage and her boyfriend Martin Fishbein drowned in the Delaware River. They left a restaurant in a torrential rain storm and took a wrong exit, ending up on a tow path to the river, the car plunged in and landed upside down.
YpM7v Today I learned Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,“Trigger” for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX
78xnO TIL that Emma Hauck (1878–1920) was a German outsider artist known for the letters she wrote to her husband while in a mental hospital. The letters were never delivered but are now regarded as art for their abstraction and repetition, often just “Come sweetheart” or “Come” written repeatedly.