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TIL in 2013 300 teenagers broke into a home while the owner was away, caused $20,000 in damages, and some of the parents threatened to sue the owner for outing them on Twitter

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YpP6B TIL King George V of the United Kingdom was euthanised by his doctor both to ease the suffering of the King and family - but also to make the announcement in the morning papers, not the evening papers.
gDk4 TIL the world’s longest-lasting light bulb has been working for at least 114 years. It was first installed in 1901 and it is maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Police Department
jNNBn TIL there are between 17,200 and 36,000 rose-ringed parakeets normally native to central Africa living wild in South West London.
44wN TIL Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in the same traffic accident
6d8W TIL after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated, homosexuals still weren’t considered victims and were explicitly excluded from reparations.