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TIL the University of Alabama has faculty-owned slaves buried on campus.

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KOoZE TIL of John Woods, an Army private who lied his way into becoming the Army's hangman and an officer. He carried out 60-70 executions in two years, several of which he bungled by building the gallows too short, including all ten of the Nuremberg Executions of the Nazi high command.
R7dZl TIL The original Batman, the 1960's television series starting Adam West, had the worst score from test audiences in television history.
8AvX TIL that Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every month, whether she needed it or not
1ZPV TIL Johnny Weissmuller, famous for his role as Tarzan, was playing golf in Cuba during the Revolution when he was surrounded by a group of rebels. He immediately gave his trademark Tarzan yell. The soldiers recognized it and were so delighted to meet… Tarzan that they escorted him to a safe area.
LQy90 TIL: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the injured girl who was in the equally infamous and iconic "Napalm girl" image, survived her third-degree burns and became a UNESCO humanitarian, even eventually meeting with the pilot who dropped the napalm and forgave him.