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TIL looking for publicity for his television, John Logie Baird went to the Daily Express to promote it. The editor was so terrified by his invention he said, "Get rid of a lunatic who's down there. He says he's got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him."

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PQdg TIL Dua Khalil’s body was exhumed after she was stoned to death in an honor killing and sent to a forensic lab “so that tests could be performed to see whether she had died a virgin”.
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