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TIL that after being sentenced to death, British serial killer Amelia Dyer was subpoenaed as witness at a trial scheduled a week after her execution. However, Dyer was ruled legally dead once sentenced, the subpoena of a legally dead witness was dismissed and there was no stay of execution.

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vpGR TIL that a Hindu fakir claimed on live television that he could kill anybody with tantric chanting. A man in the audience took him up on it right then and there. The rest of the channels programs that evening were all cancelled to allow give the fakir several hours to attempt the kill.
BypD TIL that Jeff Bridges is an avid photographer and has been compiling photobooks on set of his movies for years.
voP4 TIL that in September 1939 the last thing BBC television aired before going off the air was a Mickey Mouse cartoon. When broadcasts resumed in 1946, the same cartoon was replayed.
JY7j TIL ants don’t take fall damage
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