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TIL a serial killer’s last request before being executed by firing squad was a bullet proof vest

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GeN4 TIL that Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave – and then escaping in the guards uniform.
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nowB TIL that if Detroit was a country, it would have the fourth highest murder rate in the whole world.
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