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TIL of Susan Warren, a woman from Cleveland, was arrested because she broke into random houses, cleaned them and left a bill for her services with her contact info for payment.

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XElNR TIL that P.T. Barnum's famous elephant Jumbo got his name from the Swahili word for chief. It was the elephant who caused the word "jumbo" to mean something large - not the other way around.
PYXmG TIL The Antonov An-225 airplane can carry a cargo payload the weight of six Boeing 737s
7rpk7 TIL a Dutch student once 'faked' a gap year as part of a university project to show how social media is not reflective of real life. Using edited/staged pictures, she created an illusion on Facebook she was travelling around South East Asia for over a month. In reality, she never left her apartment.
8aOxP TIL: More corporations than corporeal human beings reside in the State of Delaware with more than 65% of Fortune 500 companies calling the state their home.
BoKK TIL NASA will send a probe to an asteroid, land on it, and harvest a boulder from it. Then bring it into the moon’s orbit for spacewalking astronauts to collect samples.