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TIL you can be prosecuted for deleting your browser history– as a felony, with a possible 20-year sentence. Even if you were unaware you were the subject of an investigation.

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6Ev8W TIL of Henri Giraud, who escaped German captivity in World War I by pretending to be a circus performer, and AGAIN in World War II by scaling down a mountain fortress in his 60s.
YV0x TIL drivers in Ohio receive a yellow “scarlet letter” license plate if they have been convicted of a DUI.
xV8vb TIL: The song "Runaway Train" by the band Soul Asylum before the age of the internet and social media helped find over 25 missing people by featuring pictures of them throughout the music video.
PMVV TIL that in 2010 a robot programmed to fall in love got a little too attached to a woman and wouldn’t let her leave the room.
OoQrR TIL a banana tree is not really a tree, but a perennial herb, a distant cousin of ginger. Bananas are technically berries.