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TIL: Two teenagers lured multiple pedophiles online by posing as a 15 year old girl, only to show up at the meeting spot as Batman and the Flash to record them.

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47Y5 TIL Camden, Maine will give 2.8 acres to anyone who can bring a business to town that will employ at least 24 people after five years.
7rxx7 TIL: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the busiest airport in the state of Texas. The airport spans more than 17,000 acres and is bigger than the island of Manhattan
X01xE TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake."
1G4P TIL a German U-boat in WWII sunk because of a malfunctioning toilet!