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TIL That There Is Are Several Statues Of Liberty In France (Pictured Statue Of Liberty, River Seine)

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RjP6 TIL of the assassin Balthasar Gérard and his brutal execution, involving having his right hand burned off with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pincers, quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his chest and flung into his face, and finally his head chopped off.
e5y4 TIL a man named William Headline used to be the Washington Bureau Chief of CNN news, and so was described as having “the best name in news”
Z9rD TIL that in 2010 in the United States, 3 out of every 5 people who died from gunshot wounds took their own life
X0XZR TIL that we've had beds for over 200,000 years!
nWxGW TIL botox can inhibit empathy