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TIL about garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect

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ANLpn TIL that Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) wrote that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies and that these anomalies were able to predict the type of crime (theft, robbery, murder, arson)
BgvlL TIL that the final words of Terry Kath, founding guitarist for rock band Chicago, before dying from an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound were “What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow my brains out?"
W7AO4 TIL Dan Burros, the third highest ranked member of the American Nazi party in the 60s and grand dragon of the New York Klan killed himself after the NYT revealed he was in fact a Jewish man that went to Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah.
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6Qd7 TIL that a simple test involving asking a patient to draw the face of a clock is used as a screening tool for Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.