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TIL At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, an angry mob burned down an arena and rioted following the last minute cancelation of a bullfight. Manuel Cervera Prieto was later murdered over lack of payment by fellow bullfighter Carleton Bass.
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TIL of Camila O'Gorman & priest Ladislao Gutiérrez, who started a clandestine relationship and in 1847 escaped Buenos Aires, only to be found months later and executed while O'Gorman was pregnant. The execution appalled both friends and enemies of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ordered the execution.
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TIL Some sharks will eat their siblings while in the mother's womb. When reproduction is ovoviviparous, that is, fertilized eggs are retained within the body and develop there. Prior to birth, the young in the womb may feed on undeveloped eggs and unborn siblings.
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TIL Germs and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear appears as one of the dancers in Prince's 1985 video for "Raspberry Beret." Dave Grohl in the book "I Want My MTV": "Pat can't dance so they sent him home (...) Prince whispers in the bodyguard's ear. Bodyguard says, 'You can stay. He likes your hair.'"
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