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TIL only the CIA (Cartel In America) can run drugs in the US. Read about Fort Apache being seized by the government after Kramer‘s arrest for smuggling 🏁 Full story in our print edition #powerboat #freebenkramer #vehiculemagazine

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r5nw TIL: NSFW - The last public execution in France by beheading (Eugen Weidmann) is on YouTube.
KOBB6 TIL the is a term for an "act of throwing someone or something out of a window" called defenestration. It originated in Prague when on two occasions (1419 and 1618) government officials where thrown out of windows, both times starting a war (the Hussite and Thirty Years War)
e0Q8J TIL that since dolphins breathe manually, they cannot enter 'deep sleep' like humans. Therefore, dolphins only allow one half of their brains to sleep at a time, and never lose consciousness.
e0BVn TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, was a fervent Christian who castrated himself in order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes
696ZY TIL a film director who faced a two-year prison sentence for animal cruelty in his movie was exonerated after props made by special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi were exhibited in the courtroom. Rambaldi went on to win three Oscars for his work in King Kong, Alien and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial