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TIL Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates

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xO5B TIL bank robber Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector to give her back the money.
wLOlM TIL of a mother finding her kidnapped daughter at a birthday party five years after the baby had been presumed dead.
woLY6 TIL A moon rock gifted to former Dutch Prime Minister by the U.S. ambassador and displayed at the Dutch national museum turned out to be a piece of petrified wood
Brnme TIL that Prisons in Brazil reduce their sentences by 4 days for each book an inmate reads and writes a report on
x6BZb TIL David Attenborough, as a young TV producer, was instrumental in tennis balls being the colour they are today.