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TIL that when the Incas first saw horses brought over by the Spanish in the 1530s they described them as "Large Llamas with Silver Shoes"

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KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
xVRd1 TIL the Mercedes G-Wagon is not actually made by Mercedes but by an Austrian company Magna Steyr.
oBayr TIL Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, established the world's first rocket laboratories in Bangalore during the 18th century. And, in addition, led an economic renaissance which made Mysore the world's most industrialized region with per-capita income higher than The Netherlands and UK!
OnN4 TIL Bill Waterson based Calvin off of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and based Hobbes off of theologian John Calvin.
6E8PZ TIL in the summer of 2011, authorities were finally able to create a DNA profile of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and upload it to the FBI’s national database when vials of his blood, taken in 1978, were discovered previously untouched and forgotten in a Florida crime lab