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TIL Four people were arrested after allegedly filing false insurance claims about a bear causing damage to their Rolls Royce Ghost as well as two Mercedes. The suspects provided video evidence of the “bear attacks”, but it looked it looked suspicious.

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6E8jY TIL The Spanish flu was called the Spanish flu primarily due to the fact that Spain was one of the only European countries with free press at the time the epidemic began. The flu itself likely originated in china and was brought to Europe from Chinese labourers sent to help the allies during the war
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KDLB TIL in 2006, the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque and disguised him as a radical Muslim. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being a potentially dangerous extremist.