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TIL Benjamin Franklin Was a Big a Pervert as TFG

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XEpXP TIL that a 50 year old woman, Violet Gibson, attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1927. She fired a gun once, but Mussolini moved his head and the shot hit his nose; she tried again, but the gun misfired. She was almost lynched by the crowd but was rescued by police and taken away for questioning.
P1kLE TIL: The biggest company to ever exist was East India Company, at its peak it account for half of the world's trade.
v1wKR TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death in large part on the basis of now-discredited forensic bite mark evidence. Though there was other evidence implicating him and he later confessed to the killings anyway, so no one doubts his guilt.
8DkZ TIL wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubemen, marketed as “Air Rangers” or “Scary Dancers”, are very effective scarecrows when used to protect vineyards and orchards.
WkxwX TIL red and yellow cards in FIFA were introduced after a referee was stopped at a traffic light and thought "Yellow, take it easy; red: stop, you're off". They also helped to address the communication issues due to the various languages involved.