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TIL that the FBI used fingerprints to pursue and arrest an innocent Oregon lawyer for the 2004 Madrid bombings, despite Spanish police insisting they were not a match

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LQOXZ TIL In 2002 Lucas Helder planted pipe bombs across the US across five states so that a map with the explosion locations marked would make a giant smiley face
awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.
LkZO0 TIL that only one US president (Franklin D Roosevelt) has ever been inaugurated 4 times. Shortly afterwards, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting presidents to two terms. Roosevelt died 82 days into his final term.
v1vBK TIL The infinite monkey theorem was tried by putting a computer in a monkey cage. "Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it."
M71b0 TIL that the phrase "Does exactly what it says on the tin" came from a UK advert in 1995