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TIL a man’s house was invaded by a SWAT team because they thought he was searching the Web for how to kill his wife, but it turned out he was a TV writer researching for a crime show.

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5ogR TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci could draw forward with one hand while writing backward with the other.
AbEa TIL that the estimated number of individual insects currently hopping, crawling or flying around our planet at any given moment is about 10 quintillion, meaning there are about 2 billion insects for every human being.
gRvA TIL that despite being overshadowed by the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Philippine-American war of 1899-1902 was vastly more destructive. During the war, The United States implemented a brutal “scorched-earth” strategy, leading to the deaths of between 200,000-250,000 civilians.
W8xY TIL: A UPS driver who spotted “call 911” scrawled on a package helped police free a woman who had been held captive in her own home and sexually assaulted, authorities said.
g8Rb TIL There is a waterfall in a park in New York which curtains an ‘eternal flame’ - a natural gas leak which visitors keep lit all year round