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4kgxa TIL Maria Rasputin (the daughter of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous mystic and close friend of Russia's last czar) immigrated to the U.S. and joined the cirus as a lion tamer.
1aNLD TIL a sanitary inventor named Thomas Crapper improved the U-bend pipe, and patented the floating ballcock to prevent indoor toilets from exploding.
nerKo TIL of Walter Morrison, a UPS worker who, in 2014, stole a $160,000 diamond and traded it for $20 worth of weed.
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0d8gp TIL that the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.