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TIL Timothy Cole, while always maintaining his innocence despite an offer for a shorter sentence, died 14 years into a 25 year sentence for a rape DNA tests later showed he did not commit

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BgVYe TIL that dismemberment by elephant was a common execution technique in SE Asia.
N7EMN TIL Frankenstein's monster calls himself "the Adam of your labors", and is referred to as "the creature", "the fiend", "the daemon", and "the wretch" at different points in the book.
9PGB TIL potentially lethal bacteria found in a Disney water park forced the closure of Discovery Island. 10 years later, three explorers broke in and this is what they found…
xVlRg TIL convicted child molester and suspected serial killer of children Nathaniel Bar-Jonah was found with recipes for cooking children "little boy pot pie," "french fried kid," and phrases such as "lunch is served on the patio with roasted child."
NXMpE TIL deer’s antler is not horn, but a dead bone which jutting from it’s head