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TIL of Mary Ann, who was suspected of murdering as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children.

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jvPN TIL that harvesting cork from the cork tree does not kill it, and regrows fully in 9 years.
p87YG TIL of a boy who legally changed his name when he was eight years old to Loki Skylizard, today he is a surgeon and goes by Dr. Skylizard
jmBa TIL that the checking account was invented by the Knights Templar in the 12th century. Crusaders would deposit their valuables with the Knights before journeying to the Holy Land, and would receive a certificate entitling them to items of equivalent value upon their arrival.
9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
jWpa TIL many words in the Greek language have no clear origin (including ‘labyrinth’ and 'tyranny’), and are thought to have come from an unrecorded 'Pre-Greek’ language spoken before the early Greeks arrived in the area