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TIL Mary Ann Cotton (1832-1873) Was Britain’s First Documented Serial Killer

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a87VN TIL that Elizabeth Holmes' father was an executive at Enron, a corporation which famously collapsed after it was discovered that they had continually and egregiously defrauded both their own investors and the federal government.
MB00 TIL of “Unsinkable” Sam, a sailor during WWII who survived the sinking of the Bismarck, switched sides to the Allies, then survived the sinking of both the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal. Unsinkable Sam is also a cat.
VMymk TIL Isabel Ingram was an American tutor to Wanrong, the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China. From age 20, she lived in the Forbidden City, where she taught Wanrong the speech, modes, and manners of the West. The two also tried to look like one another and traded clothes