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TIL: Lo Fu-Chu was a mid level mafia member, jailed for 3 years, started a new criminal organization called "Celestial Alliance", he then dabbled in legitimate businesses and became powerful government official where he attempted to strangle a coworker. He is now on the run for insider trading.

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k8E7 TIL that the most prolific serial killer in medieval europe, and possibly ever, was executed by having all of his limbs broken and threaded through the spokes of a wheel. He was kept alive and conscious on the wheel for 9 days by a daily dose of a “strong drink”.
E5DW TIL Roger Sherman is the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
gQXX TIL that cockroaches’ exoskeletons allow them to withstand weights up to 900 times their body weight
kOZB TIL that American soldiers are committing suicide at the rate of 1 per day
4Ejg TIL in 1961 a B-52 broke up over Goldsboro, NC dropping two 3.8MT H-bombs, each exceeding the yield of all detonations in worldwide history by TNT, gunpowder, conv. bombs, and the WWII nuclear blasts combined. One came perilously close to detonating and creating “a very large Bay of North Carolina.“