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TIL Karla Homolka tortured and raped three children with her husband, and likely killed them, but was only convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years… Despite there being videos of her committing the rape and torture. She was released in 2005 and now has three children.

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d8dxK TIL the Eagle lunar ascent stage from Apollo 11 may still be orbiting the Moon.
j99X TIL Bob Marley’s father was a white English guy, who was 60 years old when he impregnated the singer’s black African mother. She was just 18 at the time. His father provided financial support for the family, but rarely saw his son, and he passed away at the age of 70 when Bob was 10 years old.
WoL8 TIL WD-40 stands for “Water Displacement - 40th attempt”
M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
4kNmb TIL A gray-haired woman from Ireland successfully shot Mussolini in the nose in 1926