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TIL that John Horwood, a stalker convicted of murdering a young woman in 1821, was sentenced to dissection by a court in Bristol, UK. A surgeon peeled and consequently tanned his skin and made it into a book called “the skin of John Horwood”, recording his findings within.

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69Wjm TIL The box that shows the score/time on screen during sports games was first used in England in 1992. The US started using it during the 1994 FIFA World Cup and it's been a fixture ever since. Before then, the score and time was only shown on screen sporadically.
JWeB TIL Winston Churchill found so much enjoyment and relaxation in laying bricks he even joined and paid dues in the Bricklayer’s Union. He even inquired in a letter “is there is a rule regulating the number of bricks which a man may lay a day?…and what are the restrictions on overtime?”
p8eKp TIL that while colored diamonds get their color from chemical impurities absorbing light- such as yellow diamonds containing nitrogen and blue diamonds containing boron- pink diamonds have no traces of impurities, thus baffling scientists and geologists as to how they have a pink color.
mxdwE TIL Flo-Jo's world record in the 200 meters from 1988 somehow still stands. No woman has run that distance faster in over 30 years.
oRyGr TIL that in the original United States Articles of Confederation, "Canada" (Quebec) had an open invitation to join the United States at their own choosing. Other colonies could only be admitted by a vote of existing states.