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TIL that on St Patrick’s day 1990 two thieves dressed as Boston Police stole artwork valued at approximately $500 million from Boston’s Gardner Museum. The crime is unsolved and remains the largest property crime in US history.

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DB1V TIL that during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Bill Cosby took to the airwaves of his local NBC station to urge people to stop rioting and instead watch the finale of The Cosby Show.
lo6B TIL the longest, most accurate shot with a bow was made by a man with no arms
69gKZ TIL that Hachiko, the dog famous for waiting for his owner for years after the owner's death, was stuffed and put into a museum
MeNR0 TIL during WW2, the Nazis fell for a plot, masterminded by James Bond author Ian Fleming to pass off a dead tramp as an officer carrying secret documents, to convince the Germans to divert troops from Sicily ahead of the successful Allied invasion of the island.
E11kp TIL 84% of American vegetarians and vegans, abandon their diet, returning back to meat in under a year.