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TIL a 17 year-old online serial scammer was killed when one of his victims mailed him a pipe bomb.

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QJkv6 TIL that a “contronym” is a word that’s its own opposite. For example: when you seed the lawn you add seeds, but when you seed a tomato you remove them.
dKBE TIL that a blue whale’s blood vessels are wide enough for a human to swim through.
ep7Lb TIL about Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer, an English billionaire who immigrated to Canada and is funding the creation of a miniature model of the whole country
ABOw TIL After the Vietnam war Vietnamese farmers recycled thousands of external fuel tanks from U.S. aircraft to create river boats and canoes
OoL8a TIL that the most successful pirate in history was a woman named Ching Shih