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TIL Alexia Rodriguez is the most badass female metal singer

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b0YZ TIL Frank Zappa was refused permission to name his son Dweezil, so registered him as Ian instead. When 5-year-old Dweezil found out, he insisted on having it changed to Dweezil
j6BBQ TIL that in the Vietnam War, future Nebraska governor Bob Kerrey was complicit in a raid in which troops under his command killed 21 unarmed civilians, mostly children. He then falsely reported them as guerrillas. According to an American and Vietnamese witness, Kerrey had them shot in cold blood.
em8L TIL that there’s an American family tried to live without anything made in China for one year. They failed.
v1GvR TIL about Catherine Marie Kerkow, a woman who has been on the run from the FBI and Interpol for the last 44 years. The longest tenured female fugitive ever who is believed to be alive and well.
e0D44 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”