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TIL that Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez killed his sister’s abuser, fled to LA, and became famous. At one of his performances, he was handed a death threat, and was murdered shortly after.

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PYpQV TIL The CIA had (or has) a "Heart Attack Gun". The gun would shoot a dissolving dart that would cause what appeared to be a natural heart attack. The dart would only leave a small red dot and the poison would denature so quickly, it would unlikely be discovered in autopsy.
a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage
94a7 TIL During a city-wide ‘lockdown’ after the Boston Marathon bombings, selected Dunkin’ Donuts locations were ordered to remain open to serve police despite the closing of the vast majority of city businesses.
9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.
e0N6b Til Humans And Tortoises share a little more than 90% of dna.