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Today I learned that my parents sued Barbara Streisand and settled for her maids role in hitting my uncle with her car, putting him in a coma and having him die several years later.

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N7Nr1 Today I Learned about Native American Trail Trees, which served as trail markers for important sites. This was done by bending saplings in 90 degree angles. As the tree continues to grow it retained this “N” shape. Thus permanently marking the trail.
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.
Yr7x TIL That in 2015 93 year-old Oskar Groning was found guilty of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his involvement in Auschwitz and sentenced to 4 years of prison.
dZdd TIL a 16th century serial killer murdered 964 individuals. This including 6 of his newborn babies, birthed from a sex slave he held captive 7 years, before she convinced him to let her go to town where she betrayed him by dropping peas for the town’s men to follow and capture him.
beka TIL that the Bronze Age method of casting a sword in a stone mold is probably the source of the literary and romantic images in the Arthurian legends that depict Arthur pulling the sword from the stone to become king.