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TIL after finding a bloodied and dazed 14 year old boy with a drilled hole in his head, police returned him to the serial killer he just escaped from, assuming it was just a quarrel between two lovers

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P5XE TIL the song “99 Bottle Of Beer” ends with “No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer. You go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall”
GmPE TIL: President Ford was saved from assassination by a ‘closeted’ solider who the press outed as gay. Despite this being controversial in 1975, Ford publicly thanked the soldier who was estranged from his parents until Ford so publicly supported him.
oE6r TIL Samurai usually wrote poems before ritual suicide.
VMpDD TIL Trees emerged 350 million years ago. It took another 60 million years for wood-eating bacteria to evolve. Trees between this period eventually turned into the most of the coal we use today.
K1y9 TIL that the VLC media player uses a traffic cone as its logo because the students who created it had a traffic cone collection