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TIL Gordon Northcott, who molested and murdered several boys in the 1920s, and the movie The Changeling is based on, upon the day of his hanging asked, “Will it hurt?” To which the guards replied, “No one’s ever complained.”

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8eeeb TIL, in 1989 in Tacoma, WA, Army Ranger buddies at a bbq were threatened by Crips in the neighborhood. The Rangers called more buddies, who brought more firearms. They set up defensive positions and a shoot-out ensued later that night when the Crips made a move on the house.
b9o0a TIL that a Stanford professor did the calculations for the famous scene in Silicon Valley where they figure out the fastest way to jerk off all the guys in the room, and later published a paper detailing the math behind it
40MN TIL Albert Podell spent 50 years and $300,000 visiting every country on earth. Along the way he ate mice and live monkey brains, and was almost lynched. He rates each country according to the quality of their toilet paper.
kJ5QW TIL of Roland the Farter, a performer who farted on command for the King and was awarded much land.
Z8OQ TIL a church in Monroe, Ohio built a 62-foot tall statue of Jesus. The statue was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.