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TIL the Amazon river was named by Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana. After skirmishes with a native tribe whose women fought alongside the men, Orellana derived the name from the Amazons described in Greek myth.

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yVQJe TIL John Wayne Gacy's brain was removed post-mortem and given to a Forensic Psychiatrist, who keeps it in her basement along with slices of all of his organs.
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