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TIL Neither the mafia nor other criminal organizations have used cemented shoes to drown their victims. This method has only been used in single cases to submerge (already) dead bodies

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oBLLA TIL that Lenny Bruce was discharged from the US Navy for pretending to be a cross-dresser. Lenny wished to quiet the Navy after serving for 3 years during WW2 and devised the said plan for getting honorably discharged.
g5E9 TIL George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were both executive producers on The Land Before Time
P1pgg TIL that when a Japanese pilot was accepted into the Kamikaze program, his wife drowned herself and their 1 and 4 year old daughters in a river so that he would have no distractions in carrying out his mission
VVQk TIL in 1990, composer Leonard Bernstein has left a password-protected memoir. To this day, no one has been able to break the password.
b64G7 TIL about several attempts to create a human and chimpanzee hybrid