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TIL about a woman who asked to be tortured and killed for sexual gratification

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loLGK TIL Waist chop or waist cutting was a form of execution used in ancient China. As its name implies, it involved the condemned being sliced in two at the waist by an executioner
o9YA TIL that when a 10 year old girl with cancer was too sick to see UP in theaters, Pixar flew out a DVD and a Pixar employee to her home for a private screening. She died 7 hours later.
Z8mlQ TIL about Caroline Shawk, the inventor of modern butter sculpture. She couldn't afford marble, so she started making butter sculptures to raise money at local fairs. Her butter sculpture became a runaway hit at Centennial exhibition, which allowed her to open her own studio and work with marble.
mxoWY TIL that a service Belgian Malinois was suspected of mauling a Pomeranian to death and ordered euthanized but was freed after DNA testing proved he was not the perpetrator
neKXG TIL that the Porsche 901 had to change name to 911 because Peugeot copyrighted any three-digit number car name that had "0" in the middle.