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TIL The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries

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DQ5MV TIL that a Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashed into the Belaire Apartments in New York City on 2006
69MMQ TIL that Colombia's "War of a Thousand Days" (1899-1902) was one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars, resulting in over 100,000 deaths in just three years due to a conflict between the Conservative and Liberal parties.
awyGb TIL Jerry Lewis never wore the same pair of socks twice. He would wear two or three brand-new pairs of sweat socks every day, going through up to 1000 pairs a year since the early 1950s. They were inexpensive and he paid retail. After wearing them once they were donated to orphanages or boys' homes.
nJKY TIL There is a jail vigilante named T-Bone who beats up jail rapists
QNPra TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.