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TIL someone was once arrested, convicted and fined for typing “../../../”

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R71B1 TIL about the Pakasuchus Kapilimai, a crocodile-like creature from the Cretaceous period that had long legs and mammal-like teeth. Also referred to as the Cat Crocodile.
kEo4 TIL that there are Independent Olympic Athletes who don’t represent any specific country in Olympic competition.
MeKx8 TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”
YX4G TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.