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TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.

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nWW1B TIL Joaquin Phoenix grew up his early months in the "Children of God", a cult back in the 70's. This cult has been accused of violating human rights on every level by survivors and human rights advocates.
xVkE1 TIL Penn and Teller Smoke and Mirrors was cancelled on the Sega CD due to the game featuring a simulation of driving a truck from Arizona to Las Vegas which it takes 8 hours of game time to complete (same time to drive in real life) with no ability to pause. Penn considered it his ultimate “trick”.
kJ4xd TIL Jeffrey Dahmer converted to Christianity after being baptized by a pastor named Roy Ratcliff. Dahmer met with Ratcliff every week to discuss the Bible until he was murdered 14 months later. Ratcliff described Dahmer as a truly changed man.
dV0d TIL While in the British Army, David Niven was arrested for insubordination. He got his guard drunk, escaped out a window and headed to America to become an actor.
wANP TIL A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls