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TIL Joseph Christopher (serial killer who murdered 12+) tried to check himself into a psychiatric center just weeks before he began his murder spree

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dxZQ TIL that the (rare) offspring of a donkey and a zebra is called a “zonkey.” One was born “in an act of love” in Florence a few months ago.
MW6b TIL the ‘hysteria’ created by Orson Welles’ 'War Of The Worlds’ was a myth created by newspapers to instil fear over the power of broadcast radio
LoPQ TIL when St. Augustine, writing in the fourth century A.D., observed his teacher St. Ambrose reading to himself without moving his tongue or murmuring, he thought the unusual behavior so noteworthy as to record it in his “Confessions”.
N7g98 TIL, after being fatally shot in 1996, Tupac Shakur’s last and only words to assisting police were “fuck you”. He refused to say anything else.
J189k TIL about Sharon Campbell-Rayment, a Canadian woman who developed a Scottish accent after suffering a fall while horse back riding. Her condition is a result of Foreign Accent syndrome