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TIL that in 2013, a Texas woman tried to kill a snake by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire. The snake's final act of defiance was to slither into the house and set it on fire.

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en5L TIL that in September of 2010, the United Nations appointed official ambassador to extraterrestrials in they case they would ever make contact with Earth
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loE9B TIL that in 1666, the entire English village of Eyam, when contaminated with the bubonic plague, agreed to quarantine itself, essentially sentencing themselves to death, instead of fleeing to other villages. They did it to stop the disease from spreading. Some 260 villagers died.