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TIL that the Alfa Romeo Logo isn’t a snake with a red tongue, but a snake eating a human.

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VM5r0 TIL A government of a country could prosecute someone that results in the loss of civil rights. It is usually inflicted on persons convicted of crimes against the state. This civil death often led to actual death, since anyone could kill and injure a felon with impunity.
o9KY TIL the final battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in The Bay of Bengal, India
ne58r TIL Kanye West had an autobiographical project and wanted Danny McBride to play him in it
YomP TIL US soldier Jeremy Morlock admitted to killing unarmed Afghanistan civilians for sport as a part of ‘kill team’ while he was deployed overseas
W7wW8 TIL that the first recorded hack occurred in 1903. While Guglielmo Marconi was publicly demonstrating his new "secure" wireless telegraph, rival inventor Nevil Maskelyne managed to broadcast rude poems to the receiver, accusing Marconi of "diddling the public".