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TIL The longest cricket test match in history lasted nine days and ended in a draw

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OdYa TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robbery murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees of a restaurant in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared; the officer returned to “investigate” the crime, and was identified by the survivor as the shooter
kJnl1 TIL Tim Horton's employee were arrested for selling drugs in 2000 after a store manager noticed some drive-thru customers were ordering 15-packs of doughnuts. It was a code since Tim Horton's doesn't sell 15 packs
XAEr TIL that the Germans have a word for a device that does everything: “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” - It literally means “Egg laying wool milk pig”.
VeNp TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.
gMkJA TIL that two mummified infants were found alongside Tutankhamun in his tomb - bodies of his stillborn daughters.