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TIL about Spring-heeled Jack, a mysterious figure from Victorian England known for his terrifying attacks, superhuman agility, and ability to breathe blue flames.

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a886A TIL that whenever 9th Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was absent from his plantation, Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman who was also his common-law wife, was put in charge of managing the entire plantation. All workers on the property were to obey her, even white employees.
8aOr8 TIL of Canned Lions, who are taken from their mothers, sold to petting zoos and then ultimately to hunting events for tourists to shoot. It’s legal in SA.
d8D4B TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."
jNZaX TIL that when Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".
BgKK TIL will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas fame started a car company, and tried to pass off a modified Delorean as his own original concept car. The car was later impounded by police when they caught him driving it illegally on public roads.