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TIL that tabloid The Sun isn't sold in Liverpool - a boycott going back to 30 years after they published a heinous lie about a local tragedy. Even Tesco won't carry it.

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WW89 TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper said to one of his victims he was sorry for accidentally touching her breast, a few minutes before killing her
8ekdG TIL that when Henry Maxim invented the automatic machine-gun, he went deaf from test-firing it so much.. this affected his son enough that as an adult he added his own invention to the family legacy: the silencer.
v1aL7 TIL in the US if you are delayed by an airline for more than 4 hours because of actions that are within their control (overbooking) you are entitled to 4x the face value of the ticket. Capped at $1300.
yQXXv TIL that there is a German WW2 burial ground in county Wicklow,Ireland. It contains the remains of 134 German soldiers who washed up on Irish shores
neJrW TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot. When these plans were found almost 500 years later and built according to Leonardo's specifications, the design worked perfectly.