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TIL that in 2006, DNA tests on saliva on the backs of stamps of letters supposedly sent to police by Jack the Ripper was that of a female.

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neQEd TIL, Jürgen Hinzpeter was the the only journalist to film massacres during the government supression of the democratic uprising in the South Korean city of Gwangju in 1980. His footage was delivered to Germany and broadcast worldwide. In 2000s, he was honored by South Korea for his efforts.
wOG8 TIL of the Parsley Massacre, a government-sponsored genocide of ethnic Haitian civilians in 1937. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask “What is this?”; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley would determine his/her fate.
7KEp TIL the number of syllables in each lyrical phrase of the song Lateralus by Tool correspond with the fibonacci sequence.
4kKAX TIL a man walked 1,300-miles for publicity to win an election and he succeeded
5VVOD TIL that a humble Japanese programmer working for Casio has been a central figure in Jamaican reggae, directly credited with the creation of 400+ songs