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TIL The Roman Emperor Calligula was assassinated by his head body guard after making one too many gay jokes.

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mxdMP TIL of Pedro Alonso Lopez...one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Lopez was arrested in 1980 & convicted of 110 murders (claimed 200 more). He was only in prison for 14 years, in an asylum for 4 more, then was RELEASED & DISAPPEARED.
wLYO8 TIL that Hiram Revels was the first African-American Senator. He took the seat of Jefferson Davis, who was the president of the Confederacy
69MoJ TIL Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet who had multiple personalities and different biographies, for example, he would sometimes claim to be a man called Ricardo Reis born in the city of Porto (while the real Pessoa was born in Lisbon).
Oojv7 TIL about Albert Gonzalez an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history.
8aKlZ TIL Layne Staley was once praised by Swedish police for punching a Nazi in the face on stage.