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TIL Cheerios will send people free wildflower seeds in an effort to save the dwindling bee population

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woxw8 TIL about the unsolved 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders in Bavaria, where six family members were killed with a mattock, and the murderer(s) lived on the farm with the corpses for days, feeding animals and lighting fires.
lYW7 TIL that Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth in 240BC
X0gJD TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.
78WWZ TIL on a clear day you can see 6 different states from the empire state building. New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
8Nna TIL that when a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time due to the lack of light pollution.