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TIL There is a pickpocket who can steal your sunglasses off your face.

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9YbGD TIL: King George VI took six months to give up the title of Emperor of India from the date Great Britain relinquished power.
woYoJ TIL The last time it took more than one ballot to elect the Speaker of the House was 100yrs ago in 1923.
gyk8 TIL that U.S. Route 491 had its name changed from Route 666 in 2003 after people petitioned the American Association of State Highway & Transport Officials as they believed altering the name might lift the curse that many thought had been placed on the road.
gM9bA TIL of Steller's Sea Cow, which went extinct a mere 27 years after being discovered by Europeans. It was over-hunted for its meat.
xV0Mg TIL Iran's Supreme Leader issued an order calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, a British writer accused of blaspheming Islam. While he was not killed, the Japanese translator of the book was murdered and two other translators survived murder attempts