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aug 17 Learn More Billy the Kid Kills for the First Time


Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid killed his first man on this day in 1877. Legend has it that Billy killed twenty one people: one for every year of his life. In reality, the total was probably more like four. In fact, he was kind of nerdy. He was a ravenous reader who devoured dime store novels, and he worked at a cheese factory. No, not The Cheesecake Factory; just a run of the mill New Mexican house o' fromage.

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