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TIL Doreen Lioy sent serial killer Richard Ramirez 75 letters in 11 years while he was in jail. The minute she saw his mugshot on the TV, she noticed something “captivating” in his eyes. Ramirez proposed to her, and the courtship continued for the next 9 years before the two got married.

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DJwY TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age of consent and that Clerics have fought efforts to create one. A judge refused to annul a marriage between an 8 year old girl and a 47 year old man.
gr1L7 TIL: Sunflowers (lanyards, buttons, etc) are a universal sign for those that have hidden disabilities and there's a massive network that supports this signage.
R58W1 TIL Van Morrison’s song “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but was changed to make it more palatable to radio stations at the time. It still got banned on some stations because the lyrics included the line “Making love in the green grass”
ep6n4 TIL A British sea launched air raid in Nov 1940 on the docked Italian Mediterranean fleet at Taranto inadvertently influenced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The raid destroyed or damaged 6 key Italian ships for the loss of two planes, changing the tide of the war in the Med.
yeRv TIL that in Vietnam, it is possible to order a cobra blood wine from restaurant menus - the waiter will take a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine, and top it off with the cobra’s still beating heart for you to gulp down.