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TIL in 2005 a Romanian murderer attempted to sue God for failing to keep him from the Devil’s influence.

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ANlBd TIL On May 1901, Connecticut became the first state to pass speed limit laws, regulating motor vehicles to 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph on country roads.
1JW TIL in Indiana Kit-Kat, Nestle Crunch, and Twix bars are tax exempt. All other candy is taxable.
9YVBG TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.
LQvgr TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.
nerAb TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.