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TIL the Australian Federal Police deliberately refused to provide records proving a pilot was over 1000 miles away from the scene of a rape he was charged with. He served 2 and a half years in jail, during which his infant daughter died.

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R5wM4 TIL: Magnus Scheving (actor of Sportacus in Lazy Town) became national champion in aerobics based on a bet in his twenties. Scheving chose snooker for Fjölnir, and Fjölnir chose aerobics. Eventually, Scheving became a national champion in aerobics, and Fjölnir became a national champion in snooker"
wokYM TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.
epga6 TIL that, during the 1994 World Cup, the BBC issued a public apology after its pundit said during the match between Romania and Argentina that "The Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that", a day after Colombian defender Andres Escobar was shot and killed
r5yy TIL New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day
GAZQ5 TIL SpaceX launched nearly half of all space missions in 2023