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TIL Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli supposedly paid for 24 homeless to stay in the Hilton for New Year’s

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R5ka4 TIL the American forces prepping to invade Saipan in 1944 requested a flamethrower tank, but one had not yet been developed. So they bought 30 Ronson flamethrowers from Canada and mounted them onto M3 Stuart tanks, renaming them "M3 Satans"
j6yBM TIL that in 2017, a truck carrying 7,500 pounds of slime eels overturned on Oregon's Highway 101, causing a massive slime spill, a multiple-car pile-up, and traffic.
epPx6 TIL Wristwatches were originally designed to be worn inside your wrist, not outside.
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R5RGw TIL that in 1857 a group of Utah Mormons, disguised as Native Americans, massacred 120 emigrants travelling from Arkansas to California.