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TIL Brazil has nearly 60,000 murders a year, more than the US, Canada, Australia, all of Europe, China, and many Asian countries combined.

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gMj8W TIL: Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
E1L5V TIL about the West Memphis Three, 3 teens convicted of the brutal murder of three 8 year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Damien Echols was sent to death row. On August 19, 2011, Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were released from prison as part of a Alford plea deal.
OGgB4 TIL that the guy who was the face of "Dude you're getting a Dell" was fired after being found out of having weed and was kind of blacklisted from the acting industry.
p8xdG TIL that the submarine USS Tang was sunk by its own torpedo.
m1xbM TIL that the Rosetta Stone was discovered by 1 of Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in 1799, during France’s invasion of Egypt