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TIL that Osama bin Laden (elephant) killed at least 27 people.

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ADGx4 TIL it costs NYC $209,000 per year to house one inmate at Rikers Island
vn08 TIL that very few educated people since Greek times believed the Earth to be flat. The myth that ppl believed in a flat earth was made up to demonize religion.