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TIL on March 15, 2011, 51-year-old William Melchert-Dinkel went online under screen names like "Cami" and "Falcongirl" encouraging people to commit suicide. Those who were interested he would instruct them step by step. He admitted to assisting in the deaths of 5 people but was only convicted for 2.

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yQxOM TIL during the golden age of piracy, pirates would abduct sea surgeons from merchant ships to provide a variety of surgical procedures.
J17a8 TIL A German horse was taught math.. except it was later found that the horse had learnt to recognise human reactions to its answers and was just "counting up to the answer" until it got the right reaction
b6LOQ TIL of Banjawarn Station, which is a 4000 square km sheep station in western Australia In 1993, it was purchased by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult, allegedly for mining operations. On the May 28th 1993,a large fireball and seismic disturbance was spotted from just south of the site by sensors.
wo6g1 TIL that Vienna has an orchestra that performs with instruments made entirely of vegetables — and then turns them into soup!
bkpE TIL that Japan has nearly twice as many 7-Elevens as the United States, with 2,079 stores in Tokyo alone.