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TIL King C. Gillette, creator of Gillette Razors, was a Utopian Socialist and co-authored a book with Upton Sinclair.

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x64AD TIL the jury in trial for Snowtown serial killer John Bunting were banned from listening to ‘Throwing Copper’ by the band ‘Live’ because Bunting played it to his victims as he tortured and killed then in his bathtub.
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