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TIL what "twice removed" actually means in a family tree

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1PvO TIL about the Zomba Prison Project, a music recording made by inmates of a maximum security prison in Malawi known as the “ waiting room of hell. ” The completed album has 20 songs by 16 prisoners and was nominated for the Best World Music Album in 2016.
Wkg6L TIL that a suspected serial killer was shot dead by a sex worker when he entered her home. 4 sets of handcuffs were found on him. When police searched his car, they found a machete, axes, knives, a shovel, bleach, and garbage bags, a sledgehammer, and a bullet proof vest.
kO8Xg TIL that besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.
yQ8Kv TIL North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-Il reportedly spent $700,000 a year on Hennessy cognac
xoG0 TIL fruit cakes can last hundreds of years and then eaten if preserved with alcohol.