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TIL revenge killings were legal in Japan up to 1873

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XEErD TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims
b6lDE TIL some weather balloon instrument packages contain prepaid mail bags, so if you find them you can post them back to the National Weather Service!
W718 TIL Ernest Hemingway used to machine gun sharks to stop them eating his catch and that in 1938 he established a world record by catching seven marlin in one day.
ZnYD TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy once worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center and was described by co-workers as being kind, solicitous and empathetic.
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