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TIL Former US Navy Seal hero Chris Kyle claimed in his book the the US Government sent him to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to kill looters, he claims he sat on top of the Superdome and killed 30 people.

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JY5OB TIL that the highest-grossing film ever released in the Soviet Union was a Mexican melodrama called "Yesenia"
xVYWk TIL that Nördlingen was build on top of a 15 million year's old meteorite crater. Stone buildings in the town contain millions of tiny diamonds, all less than 0.2 millimetres across.
yQr1M TIL Tickets for the Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier fight in 1971 were so hard to get that the only way Frank Sinatra could get in was to ring up the editor of Life Magazine and ask for a press pass as a photographer. His photo of the fight ended up on the front cover of the magazine.
pYRZ4 TIL that the condition of lacking one or more limbs is called Amelia.
0dgDj TIL that spider blood is blue and you are on average never more than 10 feet away from the nearest spider (with some geographical exceptions).