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TIL William ‘Billy’ Gohl aka ‘The Ghoul of Grays Harbor’ was not the worst serial killer of 20th century America, but a union leader of abused sailors who’d often wash up dead at the harbor, which he was framed for by the elite.

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WePB TIL that 50’s British comedian Hattie Jacques, famous for pioneering ‘fat humour’ (female), had an affair with her driver and, with her husband’s consent, moved him into their home. When she finally got a divorce, her husband lied that he was the adulterer to save her public reputation.
V0Z8 TIL that upon his second defeat to Alexander the Great, King Darius III of Persia offered Alexander 30,000 talents (780 tons of silver, worth around £500,000,000 today) as part of an unconditional surrender. Alexander refused and proceeded to conquer Persia and rule all the way up to the Himalayas.
JYGl8 TIL we don’t know who invented the iconic post-type fire hydrant because the patent office records were destroyed in a fire in 1836.
PYjRJ TIL how "a figment of the imagination" is a tautology. A tautology is a phrase or idiom in which the same idea is expressed twice using different words, like "it was sufficient enough".
Y7L1x TIL Stand Watie was the only Native American Confederate General leading a Native American force they were the last Confederate force to surrender. Finally surrendering on the June 23rd 1865, 75 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered.