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TIL R Kelly’s had his first girlfriend at 8 years old. She was murdered by some other children when she was pushed into a creek and drowned. Her last words were his name.

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1aZ44 TIL in the civil war, the commander of the Union "lightning brigade" personally took out a loan to buy his soldiers advanced new repeating rifles because the government would not supply them. Using the firepower advantage afforded by the new rifles, his brigade proved extremely effective in combat.
ADpKn TIL about Robert Pickton the Pig Farmer Killer who confessed to murdering 49 women 83-2002. There’s even speculation that he ground his victims up with pork and sold it to the public. He said he was disappointed that he didn’t get to 50 women and was caught because he was “sloppy”.
eZM6 TIL L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology said, “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
Ovd4 TIL that although homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, transexuality is nevertheless fully legal and the Iranian government regularly funds gender reassignment surgeries. Iran carries out more gender change operations than any country in the world besides Thailand.