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TIL the gang known as MS-13 started when group of teenage heavy-metal lovers founded the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Their hand symbol originated from Black Sabbath singer Ronnie James Dio.

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x6OKD TIL squirrels will adopt another squirrel's baby if its parents die or are unable to care for it.
l7N9A TIL the US Postal Service has a podcast and they cover True Crime stories such as their investigation into Patrice Runner, a fake psychic who impersonated an also fake but real European psychic to con people out of $175 million in several countries.
9YdlQ TIL that in many places in the world, graves are not owned, they are rented, and if the rent isn't paid after you're dead, your body is evicted into a mass grave.
oRpyY Today I learned that Charles Foussard spent 70 years and 303 days in custody in Ararat, Victoria (Australia) between 1903 and 1974 for killing an old man and stealing his boots, making him the prisoner with the longest effective incarceration. He died while still incarcerated.