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TIL of the Frog Boys, a group of South Korean children who went missing while frog hunting. 11 years later their bodies had been discovered, with police concluding that they died from hypothermia. However, a later autopsy revealed them to have been murdered, one with a shotgun blast to the head.

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8a5xa TIL about California nut crime, which refers to the organised theft of nuts from the state - shipments of which can make up to $500,000. With California producing 80% of the world's almonds, almond theft is particularly lucrative and has been linked to the funding of Pakistani terror groups.
4X9xb TIL that the actor who plays Donald Malarkey in Band of Brothers is also the voice of Steve Smith in American Dad.
m1nYy TIL Teller, of Penn and Teller, legally changed his birth name to just "Teller". He is only one of a few people to have a mononymous US passport.
QJG46 TIL the Luchador antagonist in Jack Black's movie Nacho Libre, Ramses, was a real luchador known as Silver King, and that he died from a heart attack in the middle of a wrestling match earlier this year.
5Y1wR TIL of German academic fencing duels fought with sharp swords standing against each other at arm's length, with evading a hit against the rules, duels paused only for stitching together the participants faces when hit.