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TIL, A 50yr old inmate named James Washington confessed to murdering a Nashville woman 17 yrs ago while on his deathbed, presumably thinking he was about to die. He ended up surviving & was convicted for his confession, which he later tried to recant

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0dREv TIL that in 1995 a California woman contracted the bubonic plague when she ran over a squirrel in her power mower
Eabd TIL “Town Destroyer” was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Native Americans in 1753.
MeeP8 TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
QJeWd TIL there is an alternative line of who should be the real Monarch of UK..
oZGW TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.