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TIL that serial killer Baba Anujka was sentenced to 15 years in prison when she was 90 years old, and was released 8 years later due to "old age".

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a8EyM TIL the Canadian Association of Journalists hands out an award annually for "Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy" for hiding information from the public and this years winner is National Defence
Abvd TIL North Korean exists because Taiwan exists: China was prevented by the US 7th Fleet from invading Taiwan in June 1950, so Mao Zedong announced China would enter the Korean war with the invasion force originally intended for Taiwan, and by October this force saved North Korea from imminent defeat
G8y4 TIL that Nirvana’s cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World” off of their 1993 MTV Unplugged album revitalized people’s interest in Bowie while also leading his younger listeners to think he was covering Nirvana, much to his annoyance.
5v9r TIL That Liberal, MO was founded as an atheist/“freethinker” utopia in 1880. Sunday evenings at the town hall had lectures from scientist, philosophers, and even Christian ministers/priest with the only limitation being to keep a respectable decorum.
J11b8 TIL that in the 1950’s Dr. Curt Richter conducted a series of tests with rats in which the first set drowned in water after 15min. But the next set were dried off and placed back in the water and remained alive and swimming for up to 60hrs. Showing that idea of “hope” can keep them alive longer.