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rxp4 TIL that after a £26million bank heist in Belfast, the robbers toyed with the cops by breaking into the Police Service’ Private Country Club and placed £50,000 of the stolen loot in the toilets for them to find.
wo6OY TIL: There is currently someone in jail for 50 years in Thailand for insulting the king on social media. Thailand still has Lèse-majesté laws from 1908, which is the strictest defamation law in the world. Even insulting the King's pet or attempting to insult the King leads to decades of jail.
JYxoj TIL Countess Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was convicted of killing 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death. Imprisoned at Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow; for the first 11 years, she was chained in a basement dungeon without a window and only given a candle during meals.
RLkl TIL Tupac may have accidentally shot a six year old boy in 1992, but was never criminally charged despite evidence the fatal bullet came from a handgun registered to him. He later settled a wrongful death suit brought by the boy’s mother out of court for $300K-$500K
Oo5Xe TIL Pringles had to use supercomputers to engineer their chips with optimal aerodynamic properties so that they wouldn't fly off the conveyor belts when moving at very high speeds.