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TIL Despite his level of infamy and notoriety, Jack the Ripper actually killed only 5 people

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gMyDy TIL Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose killing of a Nazi diplomat sparked Kristallnacht. He was assumed to have been killed by the Nazis after disappearing from historical records in 1942. However, a 2016 facial recognition test yielded a 95% chance of Grynszpan being the man in a post-WW2, 1946 photo.
kJaK7 TIL 1970s ABA & NBA player John Brisker disappeared and was rumored to have been killed and eaten by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda.
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
d8okZ TIL a Japanese company gives its workers up to 10 paid days of bereavement leave if their favourite "oshi" (idol singer) is retiring or getting married, and up to 3 days for secondary or lower-ranked "oshi". They also fast-track approvals for employees to leave work early for their oshi's concerts
oB5Yo TIL Heteropaternal Superfecundation is referred to as a form of twinning where genetically the twins are half siblings or they have different fathers. In 2013, a New Jersey woman found out her twin daughters have different Daddy thru DNA test when she sought for child support on her partner.