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TIL executioners would also often be medical practitioners due to their knowledge of anatomy

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VMxDk TIL that in 1872, politician Boss Tweed fled to Spain to escape being convicted on fraud charges. However, he was deported and sent back to the US after Spanish authorities saw a political cartoon of him and mistaked him for a child abductor.
jG8a TIL in 1943, a former childhood friend of Hitler called Eugen Wasner told an anecdote to his Wehrmacht friends about 9 yr old Hitler trying to pee into a goat’s mouth. The goat then bit his penis, and Hitler ran away crying. Wasner was subsequently sentenced to death.
6EMpJ TIL that Louisiana's Airline Highway was so named because it runs relatively straight--and only later, two major airports were built alongside it.
ne5wo TIL that the Suminia was a Therapsid, which existed in the late Permian era, that possessed a divergent first digit. Comparable to an opposable thumb, that was utilized as a grasping tool. This is the earliest discovered animal to have such an evolutionary trait.
g49A TIL that serial killer Javed Iqbal was sentenced to death by being strangled in front of his victims family’s, dismembered and then burned in a vat of acid, in the same way he killed over 100 16 year old boys. He was found dead in his cell before the execution could be carried out.