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TIL, the reason for many serial Killers "having three names", such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.

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0wJ71 TIL the last victim of the 1966 University of Texas at Austin shooting died in 2001 after having to undergo dialysis for 35 years, 3 times a week, 5 hours each time. His death was ruled a homicide.
oYvR TIL that prior to the 1820s, Christmas was a drunken revelry akin to Halloween. The poor would knock on the door of the rich and demand that they give them money or food.
O90e TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11
kPvd TIL A man threw a mouse into a pile of burning leaves and it ran into his house while still ablaze and burnt his house down.
epwyD Today I learned that people with poor eyesight tend to be more intellectually inclined.