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78V5O TIL of the British warship the HMS Shannon that captured the USS Chesapeake during The War of 1812. The Shannon’s unimpressive appearance which was on the expressed order of the captain Philip Broke, fooled the enemy into vastly underestimating her highly well trained crew.
W7B9Y TIL in 1989, 76-year-old Elmer Sherwin won a $4.6m jackpot on a Megabucks slot machine at the Mirage in Las Vegas. Then in 2005, at the age of 92, Sherwin won a second jackpot of $21.1m on another Megabucks machine (at the Cannery Casino), which made him the first person ever to win Megabucks twice.
6ENLZ TIL: A man in India developed low cost sanitary pads for the rural women because they were so expensive. The purpose of his feat was to prevent his wife from using dirty clothes. His name is Arunachalam Muruganantham and Bollywood recently made a movie called "Padman" inspired by his story.
41rN TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
9Yp9D TIL Clive Barker, the creator of Hellraiser, found that ads for the 9th film in the series insinuated he was involved in production, which he wasn't. He said, "I have NOTHING to do with the fuckin' thing. If they claim its from the mind of Clive Barker, it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole."