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M7GJW TIL in 2016 two would-be robbers wore aluminum foil head-to-toe during an attempted bank robbery in Brazil because they thought doing so would prevent the alarm's detectors from noticing them. However what they failed to notice were the internal security cameras capturing their every move.
OG9J1 TIL It's illegal to engage in metal detecting in Ireland
m1WKE TIL that there are roughly 107 classes of animals of which we are only taught a simplified 6 in school (birds, mammals, reptiles, etc.)
XE4RQ TIL of Arfa Karim, who at the age of nine became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. After an epileptic seizure resulted in cardiac arrest, Bill Gates directed his doctors to adopt "every kind of measure" for her treatment.
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.