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TIL that on the weekend of Friday June 22nd Professional Wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, then his son and the next day himself. But 14 hours before anyone knew what happened a wiki user edited a wiki article to say that Nancy was dead, later claiming it was a "terrible coincidence".

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6EwpZ TIL Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work together to cause an estimated $445-600 billion of harm globally per year.
VeR4 TIL - New York’s underground gay bars of the 1960’s (including the Stonewall Inn) were actually created and supported by the Mafia. It was illegal to be gay. The mob paid off local precincts to keep them from doing raids.
oZoA TIL that closing down sweatshops often leads to a subsequent surge in child prostitution
WJmA TIL that the word “Orchid” is derived from the Greek word “Orkhis”, meaning “testicle”
nWr57 TIL Girl Scout Cookies sells $800 million worth of cookies every year!