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TIL Female serial killers typically kill people they know for money while male serial killers typically kill strangers for sex

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8ey0V TIL when King Charles II died in 1685, his brother James II became the King because Charles had no legitimate heirs. Charles’ wife, Queen Catherine, suffered multiple miscarriages, and all of his 12 acknowledged children were born to his multiple mistresses, making them ineligible to reign.
b9XYQ TIL that after Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 - 1945) the US hasn't had a President who speaks fluently a second language.
wLkZM TIL Celin Dion recorded My Heart Will Go On in one take and the version we've all heard and went #1 across the globe is essentially a demo.
X0omR TIL Hippocrates believed that hair was hollow and its purpose was storing semen, which was created in the brain. As men went through puberty the semen would flow into the hair all over their bodies. Women lacked body hair but had long head hair to more readily absorb semen during intercourse.
J1rV1 TIL of democratic backsliding, the process through which a democratic government is gradually replaced by an autocratic one. Since 2010, the number of democracies backsliding into autocracy has been higher than those adopting democracies. Scholars have called this the third wave of autocrization