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TIL: It is illegal to boil Lobsters alive in New Zealand.

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o48L TIL a convict named Alexander Pearce made two prison escapes, during both of which he ate some of his fellow escapees. The first time it happened they didn’t believe him, but the second time they had to - there were body parts in his pocket.
Km0w TIL Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has the most visual effects for any film, ever
1XxP TIL Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson killed 4 students and 1 teacher at their school in 1998. They are the only two living US mass school Shooters who are not incarcerated.
naW7 TIL There’s a red, white and blue buoy marking the spot that Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry (inspiring him to write the Star Spangled Banner) in the Patapsco River. Picture in comments.
EpZW TIL in The Beatles’ song “In My Life,” George Martin couldn’t play the piano as fast as the part he’d written. So, he played it an octave lower at half speed and just ran the tape back at twice the recording speed.