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TIL that the Dutch national motto is in French.

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GY6pJ TIL in the early 20th century a single man-eating tiger killed an estimated 436 people in Nepal and northern India over several years, until it was finally shot by a lone hunter
xRxo TIL Strabo wrote the earliest variant of the Cinderella myth circa 24 AD, set in Egypt. Rhodopis, a Greek, was bathing when an eagle snatched one of her shoes, carried it to the sunset, and dropped it into the lap of the Pharaoh. He searched for the owner of the shoe, found Rhodopis and married her
jwKn TIL Operation Snow White, 136 US gov’t agencies were robbed by the Church of Scientology in the “largest infiltration of the government in history” with “5,000 covert agents” in order to purge documents that were unfavorable of Scientology.
GAArE TIL in 1996, A group of UFO conspiracy theorists from Long Island, New York led by a retired court bailiff had stolen radioactive materials and planned to assassinate Suffolk County politicians with deadly toothpaste, to expose the existence of aliens.
epZ76 TIL the U.S. military uses bees to find landmines