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TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.

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8KOX TIL that human poop and farts get their foul smell from the chemical compounds Skatole and Indole (among others). At low concentrations, these compounds smell flowery, and are used in perfumes. USA and Israel have used Skatole in crowd control sprays—the stench does not wash off skin for 3 days.
0d9WM TIL in Winnipeg (19 February 1942) a full scale simulated invasion of Winnipeg from "Nazis" (Canadian soldiers) trying to show what would happen if they didn't have the funding from war bonds to win the war. If Day - Valour Canada
Wk9w4 TIL that when Clennon King applied to study at the University of Mississippi in 1958 he was arrested and placed in a mental asylum because he was black and therefore considered insane since no other black person had ever tried to enter the university.
XJ6P TIL A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet
4w7o TIL When LimeWire shut down back in 2010, the copyright damages were totaled to be ~$72 Trillion, greater than the sum of the world GDP, which came out to approximately $105,000 for every time one of the 11,000 copyrighted songs was downloaded. It was later settled with the RIAA for $105 Million.