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TIL actor Ed O'Neil's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was placed in front of a shoe store

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WrDA TIL The World’s oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
9n9G TIL instead of having captured Somali pirates stand trial, Russia has begun releasing them. They place them in an inflatable boat back in the ocean from whence they came, without navigational equipment. Effectively condemning them to death.
yM4X TIL that Dr. Jack Kevorkian proposed that inmates condemned to death be allowed to choose “medical experimentation under complete anaesthesia (at the time appointed for administering the penalty) as a form of execution in lieu of conventional methods prescribed by law.”
MJ5a TIL more boys are born during times of war and stress and no one knows why. The phenomenon is called the “Returning Soldier Effect”.
Dver TIL that zebras are responsible for more injuries to zookeepers than any other captive animal