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TIL that (in the US) if someone ships you something by mistake, you can consider it a gift and keep it. Based on federal law you are under no obligation to return it, nor can they attempt to bill you for it.

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69mol TIL about a short series of Garfield comic strips in Halloween 1989 that depict Garfield waking up in an abandoned house, alone and starving. Jim Davis wrote them “…to scare people. And what do people fear most? Why, being alone.”
N7GaJ TIL that Peru and Ecuador went to war between themselves in 1941. Neither country was part of Axis or Allies. So, this was an international conflict that happened during World War II but which was entirely separate to any of it.
rK5d TIL That people in Asian Countries have slanted eyes due to an Epicanthic Fold, Which protects there eyes during cold weather and protects the from the sun reflecting on snow.
obbA TIL In Mexico a cartel drove two pick up trucks onto a rush hour highway and dumped 35 dead bodies in the street.
mxooM TIL that Louis Braille (the inventor of Braille) is buried in his home which now is a museum, but his hands were cut off at the wrists and buried in his childhood hometown