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TIL over 100 firefighters are arrested for arson per year in the US

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N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
0yR5 TIL that a pilot was actually recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed
9vRM TIL Because of such a small budget, “3 Ninjas” was the most profitable movie of 1992.
7b5b TIL The number of Mexican homicides since 07’ is greater than the combined civilian death toll of Iraq and Afghanistan
b6mBj TIL that in 2020 a man from the UK attempted to smuggle 127 grams of coccaine into Belgium inside a fake penis. He was caught at Brussels airport on a flight from Jamaica, and later got sentenced to 38 months in prison.