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TIL Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward were an affluent teenage lesbian couple in 1890s southern USA. They became tabloid personalities when Mitchell slit the throat of Ward in 1892. Mitchell spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital until her death in 1898.

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VMWJG TIL in 1672 the Dutch Prime Minister & his Brother were killed and partially eaten by an angry mob
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