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TIL Edward Gingerich was the first Amish person convicted of homicide.

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vRrK TIL that Saint Isidore of Seville is considered to be the Patron Saint of the Internet.
xVVOB TIL of the Nationality Rooms. 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh that are each built as a museum grade representation of a different country's culture.
a8YXJ TIL the most prolific man-eating lions were a pride of 15 in the Njombe region of Tanzania that claimed as many as 1,500 lives between 1932-1947. Unlike most lions, the Njombe pride did its killing in the afternoon, using the night hours to travel as far as 15 or 20 miles to an unsuspecting village.
g0PW TIL: Stephen King only charges $1 to adapt his short stories into films. He calls them “dollar babies”.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.