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TIL a South African policeman and criminal, robbed banks on his lunch break and often returned as the investigating officer.

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YVbv TIL in 1944 a sixteen-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio, won an essay contest on the theme ‘What to Do with Hitler after the War’ by submitting the single sentence, “Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
m1ODM TIL that from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, many U.S. drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores had self-service tube testers in which customers could test vacuum tubes that were pulled from their malfunctioning electronic devices.
dW7B TIL Lana Del Rey originally attempted a (stylistically very different) singing career under her real name, Lizzy Grant, which failed. With support from her millionaire father, her management picked a new name for her & tried to scrub all evidence of her former image/name from the internet
wjoJ TIL That Elevators contain mirrors in order to make the elevator seem larger to help people who are claustrophobic.
N7XxE TIL that in 1518 a group of people actually danced until they died. One of the only known cases of "dancing mania"