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TIL An Inmate sued Himself for $5 Million dollars for commiting a crime that went against his religious beliefs -- He demanded the state pay the damages because he had no money himself

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nWBgB TIL that the Mashco Piro and the Yine were once a single Peruvian tribe that was split in 1894 when the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald enslaved it. The Mashco Piro descended from the people who managed to escape, while the Yine descended from the ones who failed.
xM7w TIL over 3500 unpublished whistleblower communications, including the US government’s No Fly List, 5 GB of Bank of America leaks, and insider information from 20 right-wing organizations were once in possession of Wikileaks…until the files were destroyed by the departing spokesperson.
BrG7K TIL Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison owns a Russian MiG-29. The United States government has reportedly kept Ellison from flying the MiG-29 in America because it's "considered a firearm"
E1WZp TIL from 1975 to 1998, a version of the Confederate battle flag appeared in the coat of arms and flag of Americana, São Paulo, a city settled by Confederate expatriates.
b1Op TIL Norm Macdonald was at the last question on Do you want to be a millionare for charity. After he answered the last question, which was right, Regis Philbin kept saying “are you sure” so many times that Norm passed. This ended with 500.000 going to charity instead of 1.000.000.