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TIL Maryland's state song is just a rip off of "Oh Christmas Tree"

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kO0kg TIL about Lawrence John Ripple, a man who robbed a bank to get away of his wife, but ended up being sentenced to house arrest.
ADBQn TIL about "cello scrotum", a medical condition published in the British Medical Journal as a joke
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