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TIL Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman in 1981, has been a free man since 1986 due to loopholes involving insanity. Sagawa walks the streets and plans to eat again.

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e0EGL TIL: The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a Tigon. The hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger is called a Liger. A litigon is a rare second generation hybrid from a female tigon (a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion) and a male lion ????
D1nOD TIL a Spanish archives director who only showed up to work to sign-in & sign-out for 10 years. During the time that he was "working," he ran a male brothel and was an erotic comic book artist who created a busty superheroine named Fallarela "who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies"
dvQZ TIL Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger.
7Enr TIL that Queen guitarist Brian May developed hepatitis from a tainted needle in 1974, almost forcing him to have his arm amputated. He eventually regained his health in time to help his bandmates finish the album which contained their first megahit, “Killer Queen”.
9YQkp TIL the Manhattan Project scientists originally wanted to bomb Kyoto, but Secretary of War Henry Stimson successfully convinced the president that it would be needless culture vandalism, as he had toured the city on his honeymoon and knew it was not a military target.