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TIL the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office failed to investigate more than 400 sex crimes, at least 32 child molestations and the rape of a 13 year old girl who became pregnant by her uncle.

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V1G8 TIL popcorn used to be used as breakfast cereal
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DYvY TIL that on this day, June 25th, 137 years ago, two Cheyenne women shoved their sewing awls into the dead George Armstrong Custer’s ears, so he would ‘hear better in the afterlife’ because he had broken his promise to Chief Stone Forehead never to fight against Native Americans again.
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