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TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker

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OGGa6 TIL that Indonesia has a cultural stereotype where street vendors selling meatballs are presumed to be undercover cops.
yQJKp TIL of Domino's "Paving for Pizza" campaign which offers cities $5,000 grants to help them repair potholes. In exchange, cities are to fill potholes & stencil on a Domino’s logo. For example, Milford, DE got 40 "Domino's brand pothole fills"; Athens, GA got 150; Bartonville, TX got 8.
64Bl TIL That the US Pentagon wants packs of robots that will hunt down “uncooperative humans”
oBlVK TIL The rubber coating of the sonar dome of the USS Stein was attacked by a giant squid, the evidence of which points to a squid larger than any discovered.
xVGEg TIL that to avoid releasing the Watergate tapes to prosecutors, Nixon proposed that Democratic Senator John C. Stennis alone be able to listen to them. Stennis was both notoriously hard-of-hearing and heavily drugged after being shot earlier in the year. The offer was quickly rejected.