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TIL in 2018 an Oregon man stole a car in front of deputies and led them on a 40-mile chase. When he got arrested, he explained that he had taken LSD and thought he was living a real-life version of Grand Theft Auto.

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Ledd TIL Ronda Rousey was given recently deceased Roddy Piper’s permission to use the nickname “Roudy” for her UFC fights.
nRjP TIL a soldier deployed to Iraq had his fully paid house foreclosed on by the HOA.
KY9ww TIL Francis James, an Australian publisher, was imprisoned both during ww2 after being shot down over France in 1942 and in China in 1969 for allegedly espionage.
E1WZp TIL from 1975 to 1998, a version of the Confederate battle flag appeared in the coat of arms and flag of Americana, São Paulo, a city settled by Confederate expatriates.
X0mOE TIL That James Poppen performed lobotomy on Eva Peron without her consent to help manage pain from cervical cancer. At Juan Peron’s request, Poppen tested the procedure on Argentinian prisoners to show its effectiveness. After the surgery, she stopped eating and died in 1952.