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TIL that Yoda had a first name: Minch

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LK9Z TIL That China has 46 crimes that are punishable by death, including robbery, surrender, selling counterfeit medicine, and sabotaging electricity.
5VWxR TIL that in 2000, thieves tried to steal £350 million worth of diamonds at an exhibition in London, only for the police to outsmart them by studying the Thames's tides to predict the date of the raid, correctly guessing the thieves would escape in a boat and therefore need the tide to be high.
loBpK TIL that there is a German word, verschlimmbessern, to define the act of making something worse in a failed attempt to improve a situation, e.g. trying to dislodge a ball stuck in a tree by throwing another ball at it - which subsequently also gets stuck.
n1wY TIL Goose Pulling was European colonial era blood sport that involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope and a man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off.
LQw4p TIL: Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, and several other children's mystery books all had the same publisher, Stratemeyer Syndicate, and were all largely authored pseudonymously.