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TIL Jane Kuria and 2 of her 3 children were beaten to death (the son survived) in their home in Boston. They were a family from Kenya who were fleeing female genital mutilation and they were at the time embroiled in the appeals process of asylum. Noone knows who did it.

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Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008
m10NE TIL that there are currently 9 million lead pipes that are still supplying drinking water to Americans
YewB TIL that a single drop of seawater contains 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, and 1000 small protozoans
Z8dyY TIL Crayola has a "Colors of the World" crayon box that includes 24 skin tone shades
1KXD TIL Ants can get caught in a circular pheromone trail, so that the whole colony pinwheels forever until they die.