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TIL Irene Triplett who died 2 months ago was the last living child of a Civil War veteran.

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GY5o1 TIL Serial conman, Derek Alldred, created fake lives in order to deplete women of their savings. Derek scammed a dozen women out of $1 million dollars, until his victims united to help cops charge him with 2 counts of identity theft and one count of mail fraud, a penalty of 24 years in prison.
7rPMx TIL Despite claiming 100% of your online tip goes to the driver, Doordash words their pay model deceivingly so they can legally reduce your driver's pay by $1 for every $1 you tip.
9nBm TIL during the early penicillin era, the drug was so scarce and so highly valued that it became common to collect the urine from patients being treated, so that the penicillin in the urine could be isolated and reused
4XbJo TIL Serial killer Edmund Kemper buried one of his victim's head in his mother's garden facing upward toward her bedroom. After his arrest, he stated that he did this because his mother "always wanted people to look up to her."
l89r TIL that there is a giant water vapor cloud in the middle of the cosmos that is 12 billion light-years away, is 100,000 times larger than the sun, and holds about 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth’s oceans.