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TIL that there are an estimated 100 firefighters arrested for arson per year

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6EALw TIL that a man, Zhan, did not want to pay for a ticket to get into the zoo. Instead of buying a ticket, like his family did, he decided to scale a wall to get in. He ended up in a tiger enclosure and was promptly mauled to death while onlookers watched and recorded video of it.
JYgdk TIL Nirvana's Kurt Cobain made out with his bandmates on live TV "just to spite homophobes."
RvX8 TIL one of Indiana’s most prolific serial killers was the founder of sav-a-lot grocery stores. 11 bodies were found behind his Westfield estate. He is suspected of killing a number of other men found along I-70. Most victims went missing from Indy’s gay community.
Wk54o TIL about the hidden genocide in West Papua happening since 1969, where over 500,000 natives have been killed. The presence of large gold and copper mines drive Indonesian interests there, who do not allow the presence of international journalists in West Papua.
lda TIL that the world’s 15 largest shipping vessels produce more air pollution than all of world’s 750 million cars.