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TIL: That Charles Lindbergh infant son was kidnapped and murdered and later was identified by a deformity on his foot, the murderer was executed by electric chair, and claimed his innocence throughout his sentence.

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g6OD TIL lipstick may contain metal in toxic amounts. Daily use of lipstick and/or lip gloss may expose women to excessive amounts of the metal chromium which is associated with stomach cancer. Also, 75% of products tested contain lead. There is no way for consumers to find out a product’s metal content.
yQAlV TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.
wnPP TIL during the late 1800s a baboon was employed by the railroad as a signalman. He never once made a mistake and worked for the railroad until his death.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
QJ41a TIL Female Dragonflies will fake their own deaths in order to avoid sexual advances from unwanted males.