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TIL about Mexican woman Miriam Rodriguez who tracked the killers of her 14-year-old daughter Karen after she was abducted in 2012. She disguised herself to get their names & addresses & made excuses to meet their families. She was shot 12 times outside her house 10 May 2017, Mother’s Day in Mexico.

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J1ld4 TIL despite MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" hitting #1 in many countries and helping the "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" album stay at #1 in the US for 21 weeks, it only peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and he had 4 higher charting hits in the US
6EdwY TIL that older forms of English kept Latin’s gender specific suffixes -tor and -trix, -tor is for men and -trix is for women. So a male pilot is a aviator and a female pilot is a aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator and a female fighter is a gladiatrix
Re46 TIL that there are 22 different beef cuts in the US, 35 in England and France, and 120 in Korea.
8agvV TIL that Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California was named after a man who shot and killed his wife in an alcohol-fueled rage. He was convicted of attempted murder and spent two years in San Quentin.
YpKGx TIL Shakespeare's most published work in his lifetime was not any of his plays, but his poem Venus and Adonis, with ten editions of the poem published before he died. As much as 40% of Shakespeare's works published in his lifetime consisted of his poems alone.