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TIL trees have eyes on their southern side.

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4XbDb TIL a man was stabbed to death by a chicken wielding a knife while spectating an illegal cockfight in 2011
gMgdD TIL that an 81 year old man called Giles Corey, accused of being a wizard in 1692, was the only man in American history to be subjected to death by pressing in an attempt to get him to submit to trial by jury. It is said that his response to the torture was to tell them to add 'more weight.'
6EkPJ TIL of Washington Phillips who recorded several songs in the late 1920s on an instrument he built himself. He was the only one who could play it and what it was exactly remains a mystery.
VP04 TIL Between 1992 and 2013, the Amish population increased by 120%, while the US population increased by 23%.
KZVR TIL that Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades in Greek mythology, takes his name from the Greek word “kerberos”. Kerberos means “spotted”, which means Hades literally named his dog “Spot”.