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TIL About Elspeth Beard: the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world.

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rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
KY9DG TIL the residents in the city of Hamburg, Germany are referred to as, “Hamburgers.”
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