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TIL a young Frenchwoman robbed a bank with friends, her friends were caught, but she escaped and left the country. She obtained false documents and for 25 years lead a new life in Mexico where she became a psychotherapist and mother. Four days before the statue of limitations ended, she was arrested

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ejRg TIL the origin of the piggy bank, which started in the Middle Ages with the material used to make storage jars for coins: an orange clay called “pygg.” Through language evolution and cultural overlap, English potters were asked to make pygge banks, so they started making them in the shape of pigs.
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oXnY TIL Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.