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TIL in a 1925 divorce settlement a man was required by his ex-wife to build an exact replica of their former home, but she didn't specify where- so he built it with saltwater plumbing on a nearby island.

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5YpPP TIL Metallica Feeds the Hungry on Every Stop of Their World Tour
5YnBp TIL that many WW1 soldiers on the Western front spontaneously declared truces for Christmas 1914. On both sides, they left their trenches to bury their dead, hold church services, and trade cigars and other small goods in no man’s land.
Ydov TIL the first African-American female serial killer was Clementine Barnabet. In 1909-1912 she invaded homes in Texas and Louisiana and killed entire families with an axe. The bodies were then arranged as part of a “Voodoo” ritual connected to her mysterious evangelical church.
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