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TIL that a man once escaped a police interrogation room by putting a coat over his handcuffs and walking out the door. He later mailed back the cuffs.

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abLM TIL that NASA has discovered over 3,200 planets, all confirmed with 99 percent certainty.
Wko4Y TIL about Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest during WW2. He was taken to Auschwitz where he later took the place of a stranger. Kolbe was starved for two weeks and then killed by an injection of carbolic acid.
8eL7b TIL "Dancing Plagues" occasionally broke out in the Middle Ages, where people could/would not stop dancing, occasionally even dying of exhaustion
aWkJ TIL Donald Trump proposed a one-time wealth tax of 14.24% on individuals worth $10 million or more. Trump calculated that this would generate $5.7 trillion in new taxes, which could be used to eliminate the national debt, but understood no conventional politician would ever have the guts to do it.
XRkX TIL Actor James Woods observed and reported suspicious behaviour from four passengers, with no apparent luggage, casing the plane. Six weeks later, these same passengers carried out the 9/11 attacks. The FBI received Woods’ FAA report the evening of September 11…