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TIL Amos Lunt, the San Quentin hangman, claimed he was being tormented by the ghosts of those he executed. He eventually had to be committed to an asylum

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4kmwb TIL after Mary Ann Bevan's husband died in 1914, she couldn't support herself & her 4 children.So since she had developed acromegaly, she decided to capitalize on her appearance & enter an "ugliest woman" contest & won.She was then hired as a "freak show" & made $1.6 mllion in today's money in 2 yrs
l7BXN TIL there are elephants in Kenya that go into caves to mine salt
vPYED TIL A Dog's Nose is Its Fingerprint
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kOGJe TIL Anna Jarvis from West Virginia, USA organized the first Mother's Day in 1908 in honor of her mother , but subsequently opposed its commercialization