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TIL in the 1960s, a woman found the head of an axe, a gashed skull, and macabre sketches of murder victims in an iron tub in her attic. It turned out to be the evidence from the Lizzie Borden murder trial- her father had been Lizzie’s lawyer, and she’d given him the evidence after her acquittal.

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XEQ0R TIL that a widow of a civil war veteran died in 2008. She married her husband in 1934 when she was 19 years old and he was 86.
AJ6n TIL Kent made the film The Babadook with the intent of addressing the fear of going mad during motherhood, “Now, I’m not saying we all want to go and kill our kids, but a lot of women struggle. And it is a very taboo subject, to say that motherhood is anything but a perfect experience for women.”
0Zx1 TIL The first person sentenced to the stocks in Boston was Edward Palmer, the builder of said stocks. His crime: Charging too much for building the stocks.
QQBp TIL: The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
J1L7v TIL Jack Nicholson grew up believing his grandmother was his mother, and his birth mother, June, was his sister. He only discovered the truth when he was 37 years old. The secret was kept until a Time magazine reporter uncovered it while researching Nicholson's life story.