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TIL that Timothy Leary was able to get out of prison after he filled in a psych test which put him as low-risk...which he himself designed.

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NvZ6 TIL of “Gary Lane Day.” A day the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont dedicated to a man who among other things was “pulled over for head-banging so hard the police thought he was having a seizure.”
EXJ0 TIL Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm revolver. He walked home, saw doctors but there was no surgeon to remove the bullet. The doctors left him alone smoking his pipe in his room. He died at 37 of infection two days later and his last words were “The sadness will last forever”
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69LJY TIL that the "Lady of the Dunes" Cold Case was solved in 2023; her killer, new husband Guy Muldavin, died in 2002.
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