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TiL Any polar bear found in Iceland is to be killed on site

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E1VKW TIL I learned about a Portland nurse who strangled a hit-man that her estranged husband sent. After she was hit in the face with a hammer, while she strangled him, she yelled “Tell me who sent you and I will call a fucking ambulance!”
D1mjY TIL that the word 'Trampoline' was created and Trademarked in 1936, and comes from the Spanish 'trampolín', meaning a diving board.
MEX7 TIL in 1989 a Los Angeles woman received a phone call from her brother-in-law saying that her ex-husband was coming over to kill her. She dialed 911 but was told nothing could be done unless he showed up at the house. Within 15 minutes he arrived, killing her and 4 others
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