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TIL of Juan Luna, a painter who killed his wife and her mother in Paris in 1892, because he suspected his wife of having had an affair. He was arrested but acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity. At the time in France there was an “unwritten law” that forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.

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