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TIL in 2011, a man died after being stabbed in the leg at an illegal cockfight. The murderer was one of the birds, which had the knife attached to one of its limbs.

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RxL6 TIL in 1600 one of the first Englishmen to land in Japan ended up a samurai and adviser to the Shogun
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.
yQwEJ TIL in 1996 a study was conducted that determined approx. 79% of all paper currency in the US had cocaine residue on it.
oBmYY TIL that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest, and lost.