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TIL Dalia Dippolito, the woman sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband in 2009, is currently still only on house arrest 5 years later. Despite everything being video recorded.

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gMZAD TIL in the 70’s, Dolly Parton once found a baby girl left in a basket outside of her home, with a note that read ‘My name is Jolene, my momma has left me here and she wants you to have me.’ Dolly took care of baby Jolene until children services was able to come pick her up.
awvwb TIL in 2017, a man stopped to be interviewed on the street by a local news reporter about public transit issues, only to be identified by viewers as a suspect who attempted to rob three banks shortly before. This ultimately led to his identification and arrest.
QJZRE TIL Talk show host Jerry Springer’s parents were some of the Jews to get out of Germany before being sent to camps. His grandmother was one of the first to go to the gas chamber.
mNGx TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.
OYg1 TIL there is an 81 year old model still active