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TIL Seals often visit Loch Ness, swimming up river from the ocean.

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EBW7 TIL Former US Navy Seal hero Chris Kyle claimed in his book the the US Government sent him to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to kill looters, he claims he sat on top of the Superdome and killed 30 people.
7rJdM TIL In 2006, $8 million were stolen from the Banco Rio branch in Acassuso, Argentina. During the robbery, the robbers ordered pizza for the hostages, sang happy birthday to a female lawyer, and then left a note that said they stole 'money, not love' before escaping on a boat.
YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
6paY TIL of Sufiah Yusof, a genius child enrolled at Oxford at 12 who became a prostitute entertaining clients with her ability to recite equations during sexual acts.
901M TIL in 2008, a 15-year-old liver transplant patient became the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.