› added 8 years ago

81

TIL The point of giving back to back life sentences is so that if evidence is overturned in a murder for one sentence; the convicted must still serve for the other(s)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woXXP TIL Elliott Smith's seminal album "Figure 8" has a title track, originally released only in Japan - ironically, unlike all 16 tracks from Smith's fifth release, it wasn't written by him. The song is part of Bob Dorough's "Schoolhouse Rock!" educational series released in 1973.
EgdeV TIL that fellow serial killers Richard Cottingham (The New York Ripper) and Rodney Alcala (The Game Show Killer), worked in the same office together.
8eJb TIL that there is a town in Spain where 700 people are descended from 17th century samurai who stayed there after an embassy returned to Japan. They have the surname “Japón”, which was originally “Hasekura de Japón”
oR1VW TIL the earliest known human name belonged to an accountant in Sumer called Kushim. Kushim also made the first recorded math error in human history
xkXB TIL Rabbits can scream