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TIL you have a 1 in 16 chance of being a victim of violent crime in East St. Louis

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KgNB TIL that a man was not only born with two functional penises, but with an extra limb growing out from between his genitals and anus, allowing him to seemingly shake hands with his own arsehole.
QDXp TIL in 1740, a 16-Year-Old English Boy, having been convicted of rape and murder, was hanged by the neck for 20 minutes. After being cut down, his body was sent to be dissected when he began to show signs of life. After making a full recovery, his sentence was commuted to exile.
95dB TIL there have been an estimated 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro by the United States, including poisoned cigars, infected scuba equipment, a pen rigged with a hypodermic needle containing poison, etc. He stated “if surviving assassination attempts was an Olympic event, I’d win gold”
vwjj TIL for $2000 you can send your cremated remains into space and track its orbit with a mobile app.
KOmjB TIL Reinhard Heydrich was the architect of "The Final Solution". He was tasked with the deportation of the Jewish Community from Germany and what he came up with has been the one of the most horrific act in the history of mankind.