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TIL about Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich, a woman who, in 1922, claimed her husband was murdered by a burglar. The shooter was actually her lover, Otto Sanhuber, who she’d hidden in her attic for ten years. Due to legal technicalities, neither were found guilty

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b9EBQ TIL that the fiancée of the future serial killer Paul Knowles visited a Psychic medium. The Medium warned her that her fiancée was a “dangerous man”, and she needs to leave him. She called off the wedding and cut off contact with Knowles
QNQwM TIL Kathleen Turner accused Nicolas Cage of stealing a dog and drunk driving on the set of "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986). Cage sued her for defamation and won. In exchange he received a public apology from Turner and admission from her publisher that her claims were false and defamatory.
Zpa7Q TIL NASA tested planetary defence last year by crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and it successfully changed it's the trajectory
R71ra TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory might have its origins in a 1952 Ray Bradbury short story. In it, a time-traveler travels back 66 million years where he accidentally crushes a butterfly, resulting in an altered timeline observed upon his return.
MRra TIL in 1995 during a White House visit Russian president Boris Yeltsin was found drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue in his underwear trying to hail a cab to go get pizza