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TIL on the night of May 27, 1991, a drugged, naked, bleeding boy of 14 was found in a Milwaukee street. When police arrived, they returned the boy to the control of Jeffery Dahmer, who almost immediately killed and dismembered the boy. 2 women who argued with the police were threatened with arrest.

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yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.
OoGJ6 TIL that the New Zealand badminton team at one time tried to combine their "All-Blacks" nickname, with a badminton shuttlecock, resulting in their team being nicknamed "The Black Cocks" for a while.
6EKLZ TIL about the Burakumin (部落民, "hamlet people"/"village people", "those who live in hamlets/villages"), an outcast group at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
kxoB TIL that Mark Wahlberg committed vicious hate crimes, including harassing African-American children by throwing rocks at them and shouting racial epithets and permanently blinding a Vietnamese man in one eye.
9Ylrm TIL that in 1976, a giant inflatable pig being used in a Pink Floyd photo shoot broke free and caused all flights at London Heathrow to be grounded and the Royal Air Force to send helicopters to search for it. It landed in a farmer's field unscathed where it scared all of his cows.