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TIL about the Starkweather murders and Carli Fugate’s struggle to be pardoned. The 12th Victim Official Trailer | Documentary Series | SHOWTIME

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X0EDj TIL that Tibetans underwent the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans. Biologists found 30+ genes with DNA mutations more prevalent in Tibetans than their predecessors, the Han Chinese, half of which help the body regulate oxygen use. They even have a "super-athlete gene" called EPAS1.
6xkw TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
KOB74 TIL Warren Zevon hated Sweet Home Alabama, surmising that those who listen to it "because their own lives are miserable," even writing a song about how much he hated it
X0XWR TIL after bandit George Parrott was lynched in Wyoming in 1881, some of his skin was tanned and turned into shoes. The third governor of Wyoming wore the shoes at his inaugural ball.
GYmJ7 TIL Travelling and watching movies will increase the likelihood of experiencing déjà vu