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TIL the Night Stalker killed Peter Pan. His 16th victim.

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mR0Y TIL the highest casualty rate ever suffered by the US Army (97.6%) came at the hands of indigenous forces at the Battle of the Wabash. The battle wiped out one-quarter of the entire US Army and led to the first-ever congressional investigation of the executive branch.
OGklg TIL the heiress to the Brach’s candy fortune disappeared in 1977 (and was presumably murdered) because she threatened to expose the “Horse Murders Scandal,” in which expensive show horses were killed to collect insurance money
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