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TIL of Richard Lancelyn Green. The world's leading expert on Sherlock Holms who was found dead in mysterious circumstances after trying to stop Arthur Connan Doyle's letters being exported from the UK

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kJBXe TIL the guy that did Tony the tiger's voice (They're GRRRRREEAAT) sang You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
V4QG TIL In 2010 a passenger secretly brought a crocodile onboard a plane. It escaped and everyone ran to the back of the plane which led to an imbalance and a crash killing 19 of the 20 onboard.
Lxgm TIL that the smell of women’s tears will reduce men’s sexual arousal and testosterone levels.
0wmwR TIL the Sacred Band of Thebes was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male couples which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, and were responsible for the defeat of the Spartans at the decisive Battle of Leuctra (371 BC).
X9kP TIL in 2008 a Texas man tried to make his suicide look like a murder by tying helium balloons to the gun so it would float away and look like someone else had done it. The investigator was able to solve the case after he obtained a copy of an October 2003 episode of CSI showing a similar hoax