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TIL that those old pictures on the wall your grandma had that moved when you moved from side to side were called lenticular prints

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YJJx TIL currently in Mauritania 680,000 or 20% of the population is enslaved.
wnRY TIL that Steven Russell escaped from prison by using laxatives to fake the symptoms of AIDS. He then called the prison, posing as a doctor, asking for prisoners interested in an experimental treatment, and volunteered. Once out of Texas, he sent death certificates to the prison stating he had died
69gYm TIL in an actual case of dying of laughter, 56-year-old Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen laughed himself to death watching A Fish Called Wanda
7rNOO TIL On June 11, 1964 in Germany, a deranged World War II veteran attacked an elementary school with a flamethrower and a lance, killing eight students and two teachers.
XEZXP TIL that the A340 that used to fly the world's longest commercial flight from NY to Singapore had lockers onboard to store any corpses that died mid-flight as there were few places they could divert