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TIL after UPS lost someone's bank draft worth $846K, they only offered to refund the $32 shipping fee.

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b6L74 TIL in 1828 two men from Edinburgh made a business out of killing people and selling their bodies to Robert Knox, an anatomist seeking bodies for dissection. They killed about 16 people and sold them for £7-£10 each. The suppliers were convicted, but despite public pressure, Knox wasn't charged
JYwQj TIL the Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" and the album "The Wall" were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime
b6gdQ TIL only colleges and universities based in the United States are eligible for a .edu domain name
j6wov TIL the phrase "That's a spicy meatball!" is actually from a 1960's Alka Seltzer commercial
xMog TIL that there are species of fish which have symbiotic relationships with certain types of shrimp where the shrimp provides shelter and the goby provides security alerts to help them avoid predators.