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TIL a CVS store manager once strangled a homeless man to death for stealing toothpaste and crayons.

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5YnVQ TIL of Operation Merlin where the CIA carried out a plan to send Iran flawed blueprints to a nuclear bomb in order to delay their nuclear program. They sent the blueprints by way of a defected Russian nuclear scientist who noticed the flaws and included proposed corrections to Iran.
mA9x TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
yVdE8 TIL my grandfather’s cousin designed the legendary Apache 47
4XmWX TIL Baby X , the virtual baby from the Soul Machines lab : A digital simulation of a baby with several system layers based on an AI model that will interact with humans and will have to learn it all from scratch, like a real baby.
jN8gN TIL a single type of MP3 player, the S1 one, was sold under dozens of different brand names, including counterfeits of iPod, Samsung and Sony trademarks, and with various case designs.