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TIL Tim Hawking added swear words to his dad’s voice synthesizer as a prank

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6AMQ TIL Henry Lee Lucas was abused as a child. His mother beat him for accepting a teddy bear from his elementary school teacher. He became one of the world’s worst serial killers. His first murder was his own mother.

loBv5 TIL Rodney Mullen only lost one out of 35 competitions in his career as a pro skater.

Mem5a TIL that in the Pagan’s motorcycle club, women are not allowed to walk alone, are referred to as either “old lady” or “the property of”. Also, women that are “shared” are referred to as “pets” and the men aren’t allowed to marry them.

x6777 TIL Peter the Great instituted a beard tax and forced people to shave who hadn’t paid

5Vn4D TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason