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oogE TIL that Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.
yVXYl TIL Hemingway was three months sober when he killed himself in 1961
b6Ra TIL St Sebastian, a Christian saint, is often depicted in art during his death, with arrows impaling his body. Michael Richards, an artist, has a piece where he cast a mold of himself and, instead of arrows, had planes flying into his body. Richards died on the 92nd floor of Tower One on 9/11
D1bZY TIL that King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy was called "little saber" because his short stature (1.53m) required his uniform to be equipped with a saber shorter than the ordinary in order to not touch the floor when it was attached to the belt.
wLooY TIL Coroners in the U.S. are elected officials, require little to no training in most districts, and may overule a forensic pathologist in naming a cause of death.