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TIL South African para-athlete Oscar Pistorius was also convicted of firing a gun in a restaurant, which occurred a month before he shot and killed his girlfriend.

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JL4l TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.
7ld7 TIL the reason Old World disease killed so many natives in the New World upon colonization was because of the disease’s roots in domesticated animals; while Europeans had centuries of exposure to countless livestock pathogens, natives kept virtually no livestock, so were defenseless against them.
W7ZYo TIL that when Domino’s Pizza entered the Italian market in 2015, the company had an ambitious plan of opening 880 outlets across the country by 2030. It got as far as opening 29 branches, that were all closed by 2022
LkdrV TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes, which was a company of 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, who were considered amongst the most elite soldiers of their time.
6EPbW TIL The crime of “upskirting” is taken seriously in Japan, with manhunts common, primarily due to a shortage of crime and an abundance of police officers in the nation.