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TIL Irene Triplett, the last person to receive benefits from the 1861-5 US Civil War, died in 2020

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dDX9 TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
16ZQV TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.
EE7 TIL that British people used to have American sounding accents, not the other way around
b66PZ TIL that the world’s longest golf course is in the scrubland of Australia, it’s 848 miles long and has many unique hazards
Qgre TIL that most Chinese people have never tasted cheese and consider it barbaric