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TIL Jack Ketch, Charles I's executioner, became so notorious for botched executions that his name became a synonym for death and he once wrote an apology letter for beheading someone so poorly.

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6EjnZ TIL Owen Wilson attempted suicide in 2007 causing him to drop out from his role in the movie Tropic Thunder.
LQA8P TIL a plant called b. fiolata can replicate the leaves of multiple nearby plants on a single vine by copying features such as leaf size, area, length, angle, color, and even spines
DGej TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still pays a pension to one surviving daughter of a Civil War veteran.
N7aOJ TIL about the Belga, Belgium's parallel currency unit worth 5 Belgian Francs, introduced in 1927 to prevent confusion with the French Franc following the dissolution of the Latin Economic Union and the end of Napoleon III's monetary union.