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TIL in 1590 there was a Hungarian noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, aka Countess Dracula. She has the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer of all time. The highest number of victims cited during her trial was 650, most of them servant girls aged 10 to 14 years

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QNX19 TIL about the existence of H. floresiensis, an extinct species of proto-humans whose adults had heights of around 1m and weights of around 25kg, inhabiting parts of Indonesia.
PY4ML TIL of Spurious Correlation. A phenomenon where two unrelated events coincidentally occur in the same pattern over time, such as the 99% correlation between the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine.
N84E TIL The Nazis planned a giant tank, 15 times the size of the largest tank ever. The P 1500 ‘Monster’ was like a land-going battleship: too big for road or rail (its 1500 tonne weight would destroy them), with a crew of 100+. Despite initially having Hitlers OK, the P 1500 was eventually scrapped.
VMDVZ TIL of Alice Bradley Sheldon, an author who wrote under different names to hide her gender and identity. Best known as James Tiptree Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon, she was not very successful getting published under the psuedonym Raccoona until her other alter, Tiptree, wrote to publishers to intervene.
1LZ7 TIL unlike most Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama is a meat eater. In the 1960s, he tried being vegetarian for a bit but had to give it up after he got sick with hepatitis