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TIL Christopher Lee was in involved in numerous metal albums for the last ten years of his life

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X04BX TIL majority of research results do not find statistically significant shift in sexual offense trend with sex offender registration and notification. In fact those who didn't register after incarceration re offended less as they were able to rehabilitate easier back into society.
5rp8 TIL the longest word in vietnamese contains seven letters
LGDd TIL a Canadian inventor tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.
v1Dxx TIL that footballers Olivier Giroud and Presnel Kimpembe voiced the Green Goblin and Scorpion in the French dub of Spiderman: New Generation
BroJd TIL in 1857, a woman named Hannah Crafts escaped her owner by dressing up as a man and pretending to be white. She later wrote a book called The Bondwoman's Narrative, but didn't publish it. It was found years later in a New Jersey attic and was finally authenticated and published in 2002.