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TIL in 1998 the average monetary loss of a 7-Eleven robbery was just $37.

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gkV4 TIL of Dora Ratjen of Nazi Germany who competed as a woman in the olympics and broke women’s world records; but was arrested for fraud when he was turned out to be a man named Hermann, with all his rewards taken back and given to the women he beat
aGQb TIL in 1984 celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan, the actor Martin Sheen, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and PGP-creator Phil Zimmermann were in police jail together. They had been arrested after breaking into the Nevada nuclear test site.
0dkrj TIL that in 1931 100 scientists wrote a book denouncing Einstein's relativity as nonsense and bemoaning the lack of attention for their own work. The title? '100 Authors Against Einstein'.
Bg4Bx TIL that in 2003, a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, England, created fake online personas to manipulate his friend into attempting to murder him, resulting in the UK's first conviction for inciting your own murder.
QJD6 TIL Cold War defense computers had ashtrays