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TIL then mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein divulged forensic evidence to the media, thereby ruining the case detectives had built up and enabling serial killer Richard Ramirez to remain at large.

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R7j44 Today I learned there's one degree of separation between Rugrats and Scarface, and her name is Elizabeth Daily
ANYWa TIL Senator Strom Thurmond had a child out of wedlock named Essie Washington-Williams who was black. She revealed herself as his daughter after his death at the age of 100. She tried to join the 'Daughters of the Confederacy', as she was eligible through her father's ancestry, but she was rejected.
1aXeO TIL about Aphrodite Areia, the Warlike and Armoured version of Aphrodite worshipped by the Spartans.
QNRoM TIL that in 1967 during the Vietnam War, US Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock strapped a scope to a 50-caliber machine gun, using it like a rifle. He made a number of kills with this weapon in excess of 1,000 yards, including his record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,500 yards.
yYxl TIL Stalin ordered in 1941 to open the tomb of the 14th century warlord Tamerlane. There was an inscription that read “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. Germany launched the invasion to the USSR that very day.