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TIL: A man who molested a murdered a 10 year old girl named Kate, was held down by inmates and tattooed “Katie’s Revenge” on his forehead, when they found out about his crimes

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Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
0dJ1M TIL Charles Perrault's Cinderella was originally believed to be a sexual innuendo. The words verre (glass) and vair (fur) sound the same in French, which suggests the Prince "tried on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the land."
MeLob TIL That Herman Goering's brother, Albert, was anti-Nazi and even enabled sabotage and resistance operations in Czechoslovakia during the war. He regularly used his brother's influence to get out of trouble.
W8do TIL that the maned wolf’s urine smells so much like marijuana it caused police at the Rotterdam Zoo to go on the hunt for cannabis smokers
xnQg TIL McDonalds in The Netherlands has a sauce called “American Sauce” that is not eaten in the United States