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TIL that a man robbing a Sprint store painted his face gold as a disguise. Afterwards he was having trouble breathing and died wheezing shortly after the robbery took place. And the witnesses were still able to identify him making his “disguise” useless.

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X0ZER TIL For thousands of years, syilx people and other Canadian First Nations have been visiting a sacred medicine lake with 365 naturally formed “spots”. A non-Indigenous man once wanted to convert it into a spa but First Nations took back possession of the lake and permission is required to visit
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