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TIL a man from Georgia, US, was found guilty of 93 counts of dogfighting and 10 counts of cruelty to animals and sentenced to 475 years in prison

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DQ06e TIL Pablo Escobar held Hector Lavoe & his band hostage because they refused to keep playing at his party. They were locked in a room that they somehow escaped from, and had to run into the jungle barefoot until they found a road and a taxi to take them back to their hotel.
nWEyb TIL that on 9/11, an estimated 500,000 people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan on ferries, yachts and charter boats, making it the largest water evacuation in history.
yxJJ TIL Alfred Hitchcock once bet a prop man a week’s salary to spend the night chained up in a movie studio, giving him a beaker of brandy to get him through the night. It was laced with strong laxatives. The following morning, the film crew found the poor man crying in a puddle of his own feces.
9YgQB TIL in order to minimize civilian casualties, the CIA has been using a drone missile which pops out several steel blades at the last moment to slice its targets into bits -- and that it's nicknamed the “Flying Ginsu”
dDWgj TIL that "seed laws" are a thing, where you can't use seeds from a plant you bought