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TIL The Hindenburg, filled with 7 million cubic feet flammable Hydrogen gas, had a smokers' lounge

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XExZX TIL on the 1st of March in 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her husband then disemboweled and carved up his body. She proceeded to cook his head in a stew and roasted his buttocks in the oven with vegetables. They were then served as steaks with notes addressed to his son and daughter.
p8yMZ TIL during the Battle of Germantown, a little terrier was seen wandering between the American and British lines; British General Lord Howe's dog had gotten loose. It was taken to Washington to keep as a trophy, instead he fed and brushed him, and formally returned the dog under a flag of truce
W1J8 TIL that the only person to win the grand prize on the game show “Moment of Truth” answered the final question by admitting that she believed her polygamist father had had sex with a minor.
aYVJ TIL The relationship between single-parent families and crime is so strong that controlling for it erases the difference between race and crime and between low income and crime.
yQEX TIL A doctor purposely overdosed on cocaine, and as death approached, scribbled his reaction on the wall of his office for science.