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TIL of the ultra rare second-generation hybrid offspring of ligers and tigons — the litigon, liliger, tiliger and titigon.

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pYZR8 TIL Jack Ketch, Charles I's executioner, became so notorious for botched executions that his name became a synonym for death and he once wrote an apology letter for beheading someone so poorly.
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