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TIL that Emily Edith Smith believed she encountered Jack the Ripper in November 1892 (four years after his final victim). The girl was attacked by a strange man with a knife in Whitechapel. Smith kicked him in the groin and fled, and his description fit the Ripper's profile, but the trail went cold.

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