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TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year

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0wW7y TIL about The Schreber Case: a paranoid schizophrenic man whose diary served as Freud's primary source to understand the condition. Schreber believed he was receiving cosmic rays through his anal glands by God in order to transform him into a woman so that he could herald and breed a new race.
4XMNX TIL about Twenty-one: the Alpha of the largest wolfpack in history. Twenty-one never lost a fight, and was a gentle and empathic leader. He loved to wrestle with the pups and letting them win. "Twenty-one was the perfect wolf".
a8EMZ TIL on average once every 5 days in america a person kills themselves and their entire family
epynb TIL - squatting in a non-residential building in the UK is not a crime
wox8E TIL that there’s a lake in Antarctica so salty it never freezes, even at -58°F.