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TIL in the US, a private company can prosecute and incarcerate you themselves if they have enough money.

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ADpKn TIL about Robert Pickton the Pig Farmer Killer who confessed to murdering 49 women 83-2002. There’s even speculation that he ground his victims up with pork and sold it to the public. He said he was disappointed that he didn’t get to 50 women and was caught because he was “sloppy”.
rwEo TIL An American has been held in a Dubai prison for 8 months without trial for uploading a spoof video on youtube.
pd48 TIL that there was a Christian movement in the 12th-14th centuries that believed that the God from the Old testament was in fact Satan.
e0vp5 TIL of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary to China who became the court artist of the Qing Emperors. Rather than just force European art on the Chinese or copy Chinese styles, Giuseppe blended the two styles together, which created an entirely new fusion painting style in Chinese art
E1X97 TIL That “old people house smell” is caused by our bodies releasing more of the chemical 2-nonenal as we age