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TIL Si Ouey, allegedly the first serial killer in modern Thailand, may have been an innocent scapegoat accused of child cannibalism.

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m1axO TIL: The original Roman calendar had only 10 months, starting in March and ending in December, with no winter months. We still see traces of it today: September (7th month), October, November, and December (10th) reflect their original positions before January and February were added later.
VMZ5p TIL that British merchant seaman in WW2 received no pay from the moment their ship sank. If the seaman was fortunate to survive the sinking, the shipping company regarded it as "non-working time"
lo4MN TIL of Francisca Rojas, the first criminal to be caught using fingerprints as evidence
8egW4 TIL that the President and Vice President of Azerbaijan are Husband and Wife. If President Ilham Aliyev ever steps down than Mehriban Aliyeva(wife) would become the president.
16DKV TIL that a chapter in Euclid's geometry received the name of "Bridge of Asses" - Pons Asorum - as it was the first challenging derivation of the book and would serve to separate capable and incapable reasoners