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TIL there is a Son of Sam law designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes, and first used against the serial killer David Berkowitz

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Yp1Nd TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary wouldn't have been what it is today if not for an insane American Civil War surgeon who cut his penis off. He contributed thousands of quotations and word entries by writing from an asylum.
grng4 TIL that English-born striker Ben Brereton Diaz was called up by the Chilean national team after a streamer noticed his second nationality while playing Football Manager and started a social media campaign for his call-up
epRXg TIL about a lawsuit: Allegedly in 2020, a woman noticed a foul smell when her son was in ICU but nurses could not locate the source. Then while her son was intubated and on a respirator, a pipe mishap above the ceiling caused the spilling of hundreds of gallons of human wastewater on her and her son
m10VY TIL about Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 fighter that had to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice. The plane became buried under more than 200 feet of solid ice, but was recovered 50 years later and restored to flying condition.
p8ynZ TIL James Chadwick (discovered the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discovered the proton) who was a student of Thomson (discovered the electron)