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TIL The town of Tikrit in Iraq erected a monument of the shoe thrown at Geroge W Bush.

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eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"
Yoed TIL that the USDA deploys cyanide filled “trap” bombs on public land to kill feral dogs and coyotes.
b98mp TIL that tasmanian devil babies can be called imps
N70ve TIL Cary Walkin, an accountant, actually programmed a spreadsheet in Excel that functioned as a full-fledged RPG
Ldvv TIL in 2009, a woman filed suit against PepsiCo after discovering that the crunchberries in a Cap'n Crunch cereal had not in fact been real fruit. The case was thrown out, with the judge remarking that to do otherwise would “ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense”.