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TIL the American Teenager who Joined and Fought for Al Qeda before 9/11 was released from prison in 2019.

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BrpZK TIL A farmer once sued his neighbor for shooting and killing his dog for 150 dollars in damages. The Lawyer George Graham Vest took the case and in his closing argument gave a eulogy of sorts known as Vest "Eulogy on the Dog" which is memorable to this day.
x6XW7 TIL that the snake Pareas iwasakii, which feeds only on snails, has the particularity of attacking only those whose shells are oriented to the right because of asymmetric jaws, favoring de facto those whose shells are oriented in the other direction.
Q8pa TIL the government in Azerbaijan decided to spend close to 1 billion dollars on a song contest instead of giving their citizens clean water.
oAEW TIL The Hulk was originally supposed to be grey to portray lack of ethnicity, but problems with the printing ink caused a green one that they stuck with.
ADl7 TIL that the traffic jam in the Italian Job is real due to the Turin authorities refusing to close the roads; this led the Mafia to step in and cause one themselves