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TIL that in 2019, a 65-year-old man in Colorado robbed a bank, threw the money into the street while shouting "Merry Christmas!", and then calmly waited for the police at a nearby Starbucks.

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dojZ TIL the Kawaya Kami is a modern Shinto deity, who reigns over toilets. He was thought to be very beautiful, and as such his toilets must be kept clean and nicely decorated. If you don’t keep your toilet clean, he may cause infants to be born ugly and unhappy.
7g6p TIL That Mel Brooks witnessed Sid Caesar knocking down a horse with one punch, and this event inspired the scene in ‘Blazing Saddles.’
R7lrl TIL Fresh, sealed meat would be purple. So meat packagers add carbon monoxide to turn it bright red.
b6yrN TIL croissant originates from Austria and is the French version of the Austrian pastry kipferl
AKMd TIL More then 1,400 children where abducted, raped, tortured and trafficked in the sex trade from England between 1997 and 2013. The government covered it up because it would be “giving oxygen” to racism.