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TIL After being named America’s Safest Driving Teen, Michael Doucette fell asleep at the wheel and collided with an oncoming car, killing both himself and the other driver.

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loK4V TIL in one 13th-century version of the King Arthur myth, Merlin is the spawn of a demon and a mortal woman and was intended by Satan to be the Antichrist, but was baptized by a priest shortly after birth which nullified Satan's plan, and now uses his demonic powers of magic and prophecy for good.
b8g7 TIL that in 2002, Irish police raided a judge’s home and found child pornography on his computer, but the judge was found ‘Not Guilty’ of possession as the warrant used was one day out of date.
wZJ6 TIL DMX’s current net worth is negative ten million dollars.
vmx7 TIL the Nazi ideology of aggressive land expansion (Lebensraum) was partly based on the idea of American Manifest Destiny.
jN45j TIL that the German city of Augsburg was given a colony in present-day Venezuela called Klein-Venedig in the 1500s when the Habsburg emperor couldn't repay a loan back in cash