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TIL a 39 year old man brutally murdered his mother when she forgot to get him concert tickets to see Avril Lavigne

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4kB1N TIL Benjamin Bolger overcame dyslexia to eventually earn 17 degrees as of March 2022. After special education programs didn't help him, he began being home-schooled in 4th grade. He also left Yale Law at 19 when he struggled again, but enrolled at Oxford after additional training for his dyslexia.
nek8r TIL that a sewer worker accidentally discovered a drain that would lead right to the bank of England's gold vault. He then requested to meet the directors at any time of their choosing inside the vault, and appeared out of the floorboards at the specified time.
v5e4 TIL of a court case where a burglar sued the owner of an uno㏄upied house for sett㏌g a shotgun booby trap to fire on someones feet as they are open㏌g the door．After the owner lost the court case he was asked what he would have done differently; he responded，" I’d have aimed that gun a few feet higher"
1aXgW TIL crocodiles are homodonts i.e. each of their ~80 teeth is of the same type and they can get replaced upto 50 times over a lifespan of 35-70 years.
gMVRX TIL the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 1981 (but the practice continues openly to this day)