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TIL about Theodore Streleski, a former graduate student of mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his advisor with a ball-peen hammer after spending 19 years pursuing a doctorate.

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GAmK1 TIL Quisling is a term used in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator. The word originates from surname of the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling.
oBBmY TIL Eminem's daughter Hailie Scott was crowned homecoming queen, and he watched it from an empty classroom to avoid taking the attention from her
QNa9d TIL That the US Navy Decommissioned Its Last Combat Capable Diesel-Electric Submarine (USS Blueback) In 1990.
OGZr4 TIL that the 2022 DC superhero “Batgirl” was the most expensive ‘abandoned’ movie in history. Warner Bros. already spent over $90M finishing it, and the film was in post- production, when they decided not to release it.
OjJ7 TIL that Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted that he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day after the comet returned.