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TIL of a woman who tricked her girlfriend into sex by pretending to be a man. She was jailed for 6.5 years for using a fake penis on her partner.

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R79g8 TIL that in 2018, Andrew Douglas Macintosh, a 64-year-old corporate executive from Brisbane, Australia, was arrested for repeatedly defecating on his neighbors' lawns. The neighbors banded together to catch the culprit, photographing Macintosh in the act; bent over, holding a piece of toilet paper.
gMMw4 TIL future U.S. President Grover Cleveland personally hanged two people (in 1872 and 1873) while serving as Sheriff of Erie County, New York.
oBPVW TIL that Japanese football fans always clean up their stadium after their World Cup Finals games, a tradition stemming back to the 1998 World Cup
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