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TIL that in 1906, a serial killer in Morocco was sentenced to death by immurement (being walled in).

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x6e60 TIL the estimated odds of a structure in Tornado Alley taking a direct hit from a tornado is 5,000 to 1
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago
e0QjD TIL about “key money:” illegal bribes that potential tenants would give a landlord to ensure that they were given priority consideration when looking for an apartment.
e0GNg TIL The Sharps Rifle was nicknamed "Beecher's Bible" after abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher: "You might just as well...read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle."
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