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TIL that Joseph Christopher (.22-Calibre Killer) attempted to admit himself in a psychiatric center weeks before his killing spree but was deferred to counseling instead.

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4kaLg TIL there was an Australian bushranger in the 1800s named “Captain Thunderbolt”
VvMm TIL that Harry Potter’s stuntman was paralysed in the last film during an explosion scene.
7rAXM TIL that the crocodile, Gustave, is rumoured to have killed as many as 300 people and has avoided all attempts at capture
16vgO TIL: The ‘Atoms For Peace’ program, intended to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear power, led to multiple countries developing nuclear weapons
6EJYQ TIL Joan of Arc wanted to fight the Hussites, a Czech-based Christian sect deemed "heretical" by the Catholic Church. In a letter to the Hussites, she said that were she not busy fighting the English, she would march to Bohemia to relieve the Hussites "of either their heresy or their lives."