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TIL that in 2014, Diren Dede, a foreign exchange student from Hamburg, Germany, was shot and killed after he had went into the garage of Markus Kaarma, a landowner who was facing burglaries so frequently that he had set up a camera and left the garage door open to try to catch the thief.

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X1or TIL that in 1861 a slave took over on a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war he bought the house he was a slave in, and became a US congressman.
xVrng TIL that during the Age of Exploration (1500-1800) at least 2 million sailors died from scurvy.
ep066 TIL Arnold Reuben, whom the sandwich is named for, also invented New York style cheesecake.
XWD8 TIL the Large Hadron Collider had to be shutdown when a weasel fell into it.
w7WJ TIL that there were enough discrepancies in famous outlaw John Dillinger’s autopsy and oddities in the events leading up to his death to suggest that the FBI killed the wrong man and simply claimed otherwise to escape embarrassment.