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TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.

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Mx1b TIL While filming a fight scene for Sherlock Holmes, Robert Maillet (Dredger) accidentally knocked out Robert Downey Jr.
Bg8NW TIL A surgeon in the UK used an argon beam to brand his initials onto transplanted livers of two of his patients
7GnZ TIL someone actually tricked Alex Trebek into saying ‘kebert xela’ and he didn’t go back to another dimension.
4kr9a TIL Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in the 1890s. Although many link the novel to Vlad the Impaler, Stoker’s notes don’t mention him. Instead, he found the name "Dracula" in a library, mistakenly believing it meant "devil" in Romanian.
Qy7a TIL that the Indian serial killer Thug Behram is credited with murdering 931 people. He was executed in 1840.