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TIL Dr. John Osborne, the first democratic governor of Wyoming, wore shoes he made of human skin to his inauguration. He removed the skin from the body of an executed train robber. He also made a doctor’s bag and coin purse. He gave the top of the skull to his 15 year old assistant as a souvenir.

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7r4gP TIL that Lake Malawi (in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique), the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, is called the "Calendar Lake", because it is 365 miles from top to bottom, 52 miles at its widest point, and 12 main rivers flow into the lake
rRexW TIL a street, a handful landmarks & a few towns in LA were named after Pío Pico, an Afro-Mexican and last governor of Alta California (when California was a part of Mexico)
699xJ TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan's warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito's presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it "the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life"
KOMV6 TIL that the BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, who killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991, was finally caught after sending a 1.44MB diskette to the police - which they told him was untraceable - containing metadata from a deleted MS Word file.
7rElO TIL about Ernst Thälmann, leader of Germany’s radical left in the last years of the Weimar Republic, who thought the center left was a greater danger than the right.