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TIL The last known person to be photographed with John Lennon was Mark David Chapman, his future assassin.

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78B77 TIL That Cop killer Donald Eugene Webb was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for longer than anyone else at the time, and never captured. Turns out the reason for that is his wife was secretly hiding him at her own house and after he died she buried him on her property.
p8OZ TIL Some Paralympic athletes gain an unfair advantage by purposely injuring themselves on areas of their body with no feeling. It’s called “boosting” and the goal is to trick the body into triggering a kind of fight-or-flight response, and in doing so, increase performance.
LQKV0 TIL Montezuma's lineage still exists and even holds a noble title in Spain, which was granted to a grandson of his that moved there.
EgbPX TIL about the 'sexy hand-axe’ theory in evolutionary psychology. This proposes that elegantly-made symmetrical stone hand-axes, which characterise the Acheulean Period of human development, were used as a status-signalling device to attract women.
wYY6 TIL: World now has ‘more people dying from obesity than malnutrition’ | Metro News