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TIL serial rapist Andrew Luster fled to Mexico to avoid sentencing, and was brought to justice only after he was illegally kidnapped and brought back to the border. The name of his kidnapper: Duane Chapman aka Dog The Bounty Hunter

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5Yb9Q TIL that the first person in recorded history to be killed by a robot was a factory worker at the Ford Motor Company in 1979.
LQgkQ TIL that the Umayyad Caliphate destroyed Carthage in 698 AD after conquering the city from the Romans/Byzantines. This last destruction of Carthage put a permanent end to Roman Africa.
WkAA8 TIL that in 2004, a woman's steel chastity belt triggered a security alarm at the metal detector. The woman explained that her husband had forced her to wear the device to prevent an extramarital affair while she was on vacation in Greece. She continued her flight to London on the pilot's authority.
4kenN TIL the current head of the Tokugawa samurai family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years as an isolationist shogunate, grew up in the US and married a Vietnamese woman
kJeG5 TIL Adolf Hitler hired the creator of Porsche to make the first Volkswagen Beetle(his personal car)