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TIL that Robert Catesby was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot, even though the day is named after Guy Fawkes

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68Wm TIL that a 2007 study found that the murder of Kitty Genovese was NOT witnessed by dozens of people who refused to help her
wVjo TIL: While building a new highway in Houston this year, engineers found an ancient Indian burial ground. Archaeologists now say there are 10 sets of human remains as old as 14,000 years.
X0vr TIL Amazon holds a patent on 1-click buying; Apple pays them licensing fees
QN7G6 TIL that the longest democratically elected communist government in history was the 34 year Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front rule in the Indian state of West Bengal
awWRM TIL that E. G. Daily who voiced Tommy Pickles in Rugrats & Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls, is also a singer. In 1986, she released her debut single "Say It, Say It". The single went to number one on the U.S. Dance Club Play chart for one week