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TIL that until 1828 in England, a wife killing her husband was considered " Petty Treason" and worse than murder—because he was legally her "lord and ruler." And the punishment for it was being burned at the stake

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v1RNL TIL of Irina Margareta Nistor, a Romanian woman that dubbed banned Western films during Romania's Communist regime, and by doing so, voiced Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Tom Cruise (among others).
KB9Q TIL that George Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first to unlock a first generation iPhone and sold the iPhone for a Nissan 350z and 3 locked iPhones.
1ERW TIL that a 35-year-old named Mitchell Heisman left a 1,905 page suicide note about the meaningless of life before killing himself.
x6Mn5 TIL that there's an all women team competing in endurance racing, complete with an all woman crew. They race in the LMGTE/GT3 category and once won in their category in 2023, at a race in Bahrain.
W74N9 TIL in 2013 a woman went to pick up a friend in Brussels (less than 90 miles from her home), however because of a GPS error, she ended up in Croatia after driving 900 miles across five international borders. She realized she took a wrong turn two days after leaving. Her son had reported her missing.