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TIL an Assistant US Attorney investigating sexual predators & drug rings was found stabbed 36 times, hundreds of miles from his home. Some wounds were on his back, his hands shredded, his scrotum & neck sliced & there was an unidentified fingerprint in his car. His death was ruled suicide.

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xRxo TIL Strabo wrote the earliest variant of the Cinderella myth circa 24 AD, set in Egypt. Rhodopis, a Greek, was bathing when an eagle snatched one of her shoes, carried it to the sunset, and dropped it into the lap of the Pharaoh. He searched for the owner of the shoe, found Rhodopis and married her
bJBQ TIL the flags of Australia and New Zealand are so similar, the Prime Minister of Australia was greeted with the flag of New Zealand on a state visit to Canada in 1984
XQOE TIL Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory(2005).
DAJP TIL Men traditionally walk with a woman on his left arm so that his sword arm would be free in case of a duel.
omJA TIL In 2006 a man burned himself alive in opposition to the war in Iraq. It was never reported on major networks.