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TIL that stealing sand is the largest organized crime activity in India.

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a8JbM TIL a death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned the courts to run the tests. They were found to be his own fingerprints.
pYdbA TIL that Bisons were in millions up until the beginning of 20th century, the reason was because European settlers and US governments were systematically working on slaughtering them, as a strategy of displacement to enforce native americans to leave.
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1NeP TIL in 1968, having deemed 11 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons too politically incorrect to air, United Artists withheld them from syndication. The “Censored 11” haven’t aired on TV since, but clips have crept online, giving today’s audiences a window into cringeworthy racist stereotypes.
dJJZ TIL that in 1856, an Indian mathematician was hired to calculate the height of Mount Everest and found it to be exactly 29,000 ft. Authorities released the height as 29,002 ft to avoid speculation that they had just given a rounded estimate as it would have been hard to believe the exact figure.