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TIL in Washington State, it is illegal to kill Bigfoot/Sasquatch... despite it being a fictional species.

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VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
nWek7 TIL palimpsest are texts which have been scrapped to be reused. In the Middle Age, due to the scarcity of parchment (made from animal skins), older manuscripts were reused this way
nW7L9 TIL An English composer, Jeremiah Clarke, couldn't decide if he should commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself. He flipped a coin and after the coin landed on its edge in the mud he went home and shot himself instead.
0wK1v TIL about Fairy Rings. Naturally-ocurring rings or arcs of fungi that are frequently found in forestal areas, and they also have been formerly linked to witches or the Devil in old folklore or
nWmeG TIL of the 8-minute phone call ☎️