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TIL A teen from Manchester used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history charged with inciting his own murder

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16aED TIL the longest word ever used in literature is from a 391 BC work by Aristophanes: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon
xEmg TIL Australia straight-up lost a prime-minister in 1967. He still hasn’t been found.
LjeV TIL in Connecticut in 1923, you could be fined or imprisoned for observing Daylight Saving Time
epnB4 TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.
EPkX TIL A newspaper reporter in Toronto, gave homeless people prepaid gift cards in $50 and $75 denominations. He then tracked them online, to see what they spent it on.