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TIL about Jock Sturges, who loved photographing nude adolescents. In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana. He also pled guilty to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child.

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jNrAR TIL that early in his imprisonment, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, befriended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef, a perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship that lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.
BjWd TIL : Don King, famed boxing promoter stomped one of his employees to death, however he only spent 3 years and 11 months in jail.
0wBWN TIL "Scientists estimate that there are at least six billion planets that are similar to our Earth, present within our Milky Way galaxy alone. Some estimate that there are more than 10 billion."
XdZr TIL “Esprit d'escalier” (literally, staircase wit) is a French term used in English to denote the tendency to think of a witty reply when it is too late, for example when taking the stairs on leaving the scene of a confrontation.
emZE TIL That there is an currently an effort by scholars to educate people about the upcoming 25th anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre and to protest the Chinese attempts to erase this event from history.