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TIL: Burglars in the US usually are drug users, break in during daylight, and are acquainted with their victims.

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165pD TIL A Canadian judge canceled a marriage annulment after discovering that the wife who testified during court proceedings had been an imposter.
M7YyW TIL that although equiped with parachutes while on air ambulance missions during WWII, the Flying Nightingales of the WAAF were instructed not to bail out and stay with the patients if their plane was shot down so that they would be on hand to provide medical support should anyone survive the crash
QmML TIL Funyuns were originally going to be called “OnYums”, but it was discovered that name was already taken.
dDKDQ TIL, On saturn, it literally rains diamonds | BBC Earth
9M0Q TIL that there is a legend that the Ottoman Sultan intended to send £10,000 to Ireland to aid in the Starvation, but was stopped by Queen Victoria who had only sent £2000. Instead he sent £1000 and three ships full of food. A letter of thanks from the Irish is in the Ottoman Archives.