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TIL that James Gordon Wolcott killed his family with a .22 long-barrel in 1967. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was later released and is now a psychology professor and chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at Millikin University, going by the name James St. James.

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nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
woGvM TIL that Audrey Hepburn declined the offer from Otto Frank to play his daughter, Anne, in the 1959 film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Audrey declined, because she did not want to relive her wartime experiences in German occupied Holland.
D18YY TIL on this day, July 30 1864, Union troops used 8,000lbs of gunpowder to blow a massive hole in the enemy trenches during the Siege of Petersburg. Due to a last minute change, the troops assigned to exploit the explosion were untrained and their commander was drunk, leading to a terrible loss.
KYAg6 TIL of the BIER Party, a political party in Vienna, Austria that calls for aptitude testing for politicians, as well as a ban on radlers.
wo5M1 TIL The Liberty pole is derived from the assassination of Ceasar. After the assassinstion the assaliants paraded through Rome, one of the assailants carried a pileus on the end of his spear. The pileus has since been replaced by the Phrygian cap and become a symbol of Liberty and rebellion.