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TIL about London’s Forty Elephants, an all-female gang of shoplifters

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b7l9 TIL a 19th century Japanese sculpture artist created a statue of himself so lifelike it is indistinguishable from its creator, right down to the muscles, pores and tiny hairs on his skin.
VB7L8 TIL The Italian dish 'Spaghetti all'assassina' was named because patrons joked it was so spicy the chef was trying to kill them. The Accademia dell'Assassina, a group of culinary experts and enthusiasts, was founded in Bari in 2013 to protect against any corruption of the original recipe.
v1yyK TIL that in the original novels, James Bond was found to consume, on average, 92 units of alcohol a week. His preference for martinis “shaken, not stirred” may have stemmed from an inability to stir his drinks due persistent shaking from alcohol induced tremors.
nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.
K4O4 TIL kangaroos give birth to an underdeveloped fetus called a joey. When the joey is born it crawls into its mother’s pouch and attaches to a nipple where it grows and develops to a juvenile stage.