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TIL of Maurice Tillet, The Wrestler Who May Have Inspired Shrek

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DQdgp TIL The parasitic flatworms released by freshwater snails kill up to 200,000 people a year. Only two other animals kill more humans than the flukes released by freshwater snails - humans and mosquitos.
OGOWa TIL of the Watts Rebellion in 1965 that took place over 6 days due to civil rights abuses by LAPD, resulting in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, nearly 4,000 arrests, and $40 million property damage.
e0RND TIL FDR’s face is on the dime because of a foundation he started for polio patients by having people mail dimes to the White House, now known as the March of Dimes
4XoDR TIL the wreckage of the Titanic will likely disappear by 2030 due to forming "rusticles" that will eventually break apart and drift away.
aBV0 TIL MI6 once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe.