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TIL that upon the storming of the Bastille and the release of prisoners, the facility had held only seven men captive, not hundreds. Eight prisoners would have been freed but the Marquis de Sade had been released ten days earlier.

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GYjy1 TIL that Hiram Maxim took out ads in the local paper to warn his neighbours in West Norwood on the days he was planning to test-fire his prototype machine gun in the back garden
GANl1 TIL on October 2 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737 sideswiped a Boeing 707 and then collided into a Boeing 757 at China’s former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It resulted in 128 people being killed and the Captain of the 707 getting injured.
RyM9 TIL American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland tried to ‘cure’ her sons homosexuality by forcing him to sleep with her. She ended up being murdered by him. After his release from prison Antony Baekeland tried to kill his grandmother as well.
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