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TIL that Shirley Temple's daughter was for several years the bass player for sludge rock band The Melvins

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LkGP9 TIL that in 2008 suspected serial murderer Ricky Simonds was found dead of heat stroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriends car. Investigators on the case believe Simonds was waiting in the trunk to ambush and murder his ex-girlfriend, when he became locked in the vehicle.
m1wPP TIL During the Reformation, a knight named Hans von Hake asked Johann Tetzel to purchase an indulgence for a future sin. Tetzel sold Hake an indulgence for a future non-specific sin. Hake then ambushed, and robbed Johann Tetzel of all of his indulgence money.
9Y166 TIL Mongolians were afraid of Lightning. And they thought eating animals that were killed by lighting had bad JUJU
VM6wk TIL that curling originated in Scotland
M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.