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TIL of Judy Buenoano aka 'Black Widow'. She had been convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic, drowning her son, and attempting to kill her fiancé with a car bomb. In 1998, she was the first woman to be executed in the state of Florida since 1848

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lRXA TIL that James Dean was likely bisexual, engaging in relationships with both prominent men and women. When asked about his sexuality, he responded, “No, I am not a homosexual. But I’m also not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back.”
4XEVg TIL Meghan Smith is the person with the most uncredited movie/series appearances on the planet. She is the woman whose portrait is printed on a newspaper prop used regularly over the past 60 years
QppE TIL in the 50’s there were so many kid dying from playing in abandoned fridges in the US, they passed the Refrigerator Safety Act. It was so severe troops of people would sometimes search out abandoned refrigerators, detaching the doors and smashing the locks.
1V7P TIL that after impeachment failed against Sioux tribal chairman Dick Wilson, more than 50 of his political opponents died violently over the next two years.
nWdQY TIL: that despite the controversy over Ada Lovelace being the "first programmer," she was the first to realize that the Analytical Engine—the earliest concept of a computer—could act on things beyond numbers, like music or symbols, marking her as a visionary who saw the full potential of computers.