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TIL murderer Richard McNair mailed himself out of prison, convinced a police officer he wasn’t the fugitive they were looking for, and lived in Canada for over a year while running a blog on himself

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WpBA TIL dice predate recorded history
wNNM TIL that according to Robert Downey, Jr., they wanted Bill Murray to consider a role in Iron Man, but “nobody could find him.”
6EVr7 TIL that cotton shopping bags need to be used 7100 to 20,000 times for their environmental impact to be the same as a plastic bag
A7El TIL Police Chief Daryl Gates, creator of DARE, said “casual drug users ought to be taken out and shot”
lLMr TIL in 2009 Irish police found they had more than 50 motoring offences recorded for someone called “Prawo Jadzy”. It turned out that Prawo Jadzy means “driving license” in Polish