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TIL while working as maids Léa Papin and her sister Christine were found guilty of murdering their employer’s wife and daughter. Léa was given a reduced sentence of eight years due to good behaviour, and upon release moved to Nantes where she continued her livelihood as a hotel maid.

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pXMZ TIL during the Napoleanic War a French vessel wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool killing all the crew except for one monkey dressed in a military uniform. The people of Hartlepool having never seen a Frenchman or a monkey before held an impromptu trial for the monkey and sentenced it to death.
XE6d8 TIL that from The Munsters, the "Munster Koach" was a hot rod built on a lengthened 1926 Ford Model T chassis with a custom hearse body. It was 18 feet long and cost almost $20,000 to build. The "Drag-u-la" was the combination of an illegally acquired coffin and a Ford Hot Rod.
Egx7x TIL that the term "millionaire" was first used in the U.S. by Thomas Jefferson in 1786. That is equivalent to approximately $30M today.
LkGvr TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.
p8pZ4 TIL of NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission, in which NASA will launch a nuclear powered drone weighing half a ton to Saturn's moon Titan. The plan is that the nuclear powered drone will fly around on Titan, scouting its terrain while searching for complex and prebiotic chemistry.