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TIL Stuart Little was a human child born to human parents who just looked exactly like a 2 inch tall mouse

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e0nD6 TIL Willie Nelson used to smoke 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day on top of smoking marijuana. After suffering pneumonia several times, he knew he had to quit one or the other. He chose to quit tobacco.
9wMj7 TIL The Dominican Republic launched a genocide of Haitians living on the two country's frontiers. They identified Haitians from their own populace by making suspects pronounce "parsley," or "perejil" in Spanish. If they could not do this, they were deemed Haitian and murdered.
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
AmPa TIL that when Tesla moved to Colorado to work on artificial lightning, thunder from one experiment was heard 15 miles away, people saw sparks jumping from their feet to the ground, butterflies were swirling in circles with blue halos around their wings and the whole town was left in the dark.
9ZrG TIL: It is illegal to boil Lobsters alive in New Zealand.