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TIL that in the 1910s/20s a wolf spent 9 years massacring livestock in the town of Custer, South Dakota. He evaded hunters, traps, and poison. He kept two coyotes as servants/lookouts. And when he was finally killed the government issued a press release.

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NXX0J Til of Honopu Valley which is the most secluded beach on Kauai. Beaching ANYTHING on it is a $10000 fine per day. The only way to access it legally is to swim from a boat off shore.
JYG1l TIL in 2014, a woman's corpse was propped up at a table during her funeral in New Orleans. She also had her nails painted and had a glass of whiskey in her hands. Her daughters stated that this is what their mother wanted for her funeral and that guests enjoyed it.
167aW TIL when Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of photographic studies of motion, shot his wife's lover he was acquitted by jury trial because the homicide was considered "justifiable".
m151M TIL that 200 nations signed The Outer Space Treaty in agreement that any space exploration should be mindful of planetary protection so as not to contaminate potential life on other worlds with Earthly microbes
8e7WK TIL that the 188 tallest mountains on earth are in Asia. The 189th tallest, Aconcagua, is in Argentina.