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TIL Jerry Springer used to be the mayor of Cincinnati and resigned after being caught paying for sex with personal checks

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LQo10 TIL of The Lainz Angels of Death. Four women who were nurse’s aides convicted of murdering 49 patients with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into their lungs between 1983 and 1989. They were caught only after bragging about their latest murder in a local tavern. By 2008 all four are free.
7j5x TIL that treadmills were originally used as punishment for prisoners.
v1keD TIL that Miitopia, a game for the 3DS, is the first and currently only Nintendo developed game to receive an adult rating, as in Russia, any game showing same sex relationships in a positive light gets an automatic 18+ rating, despite everything else in Miitopia being child friendly
a8ElA TIL: That a Chinese high court deemed the 996 work culture, where people were expected to work from 9AM to 9PM, 6 days a week, illegal
KOB1a TIL It was only in 2015 that a videographer captured for the first time footage of a blue whale calf breastfeeding