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TIL some of the founding fathers were deists, they believed there was a god who created our universe, but they also believed that he hasn't interfered with it since its creation.

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dDX9 TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
W7Y9o TIL: There is a corporal in the British Army named Adonis Maximus Badass (Yes, that's his real name).
BEe TIL: There were once Africans on display in the Bronx Zoo
PYyEw TIL in 2013 nine episodes of Doctor Who that had been considered lost for years were found at a TV station in Nigeria, including "The Web of Fear," in which Patrick Troughton's Doctor fights a robot yeti in the London Underground.
nepKd TIL that sausages have been commonly referred to as "dogs" since the 1800s due to a belief that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages. Consumption of dog meat was common in Germany up to the early 1900s so these suspicion was "occasionally justified".