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TIL that Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the first person in California arrested under the then new law against being a convicted felon wearing a bulletproof vest.

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ANYEn TIL that chemotherapy can be traced back to the sinking of an Allied ship secretly carrying chemical weapons in WW2
nWBXo TIL that Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, which is a small town to the north of Paris. He continued to paint up until his death in 1890. He also was admitted to the Asylum of Saint Paul in Saint-Rémy because of severe mental illness.
jNoEp TIL That the Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
YpLrd TIL Since suicide is an unforgivable sin for christians many people, especialy women in 18th century resorted to suicide by proxy. They would usualy murder a child, a crime punishable by death and ask for forgiveness right before the execution
7GPP TIL in WW2, the British navy rescued a German cat that was floating on the wreckage of a sinking battleship. The cat went on to “serve” aboard several British ships and survived two additional sinkings