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TIL After Steve Irwin’s death several stingrays were found mutilated on the beaches of Queensland in what appeared to be revenge killings.

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PJvE TIL that the New London, CT police department was sued when it refused to hire an applicant it judged too smart to be a police officer.
rNLre TIL that Oprah Winfrey’s birth name was Orpah, named after a woman from the Bible, but nobody could pronounce it right, so it became Oprah.
R5eW6 TIL of the Satanic Panic, a moral panic that spread throughout the United States in the 1980s and early 90s. Despite over 12,000 claims of ritualistic Satanic abuse, investigators never found convincing evidence that any such groups existed, much less committed the claimed crimes
5V7G8 TIL in the 1970s hysteria over the arrival of killer bees in the United States created a genre of "killer bee movies". One of the most well-known movies was the 1978 film "The Swarm", directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine. It scored 9% at Rotten Tomatoes.
xaJB TIL World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together