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TIL: You’re not allowed to visit the isle of Komodo if you’re on your period as it can attract dragons

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m1Xxp TIL that "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin set the U.S. women's pro basketball single game scoring record despite dislocating her shoulder early in the game
mxOWO TIL on a rainy March night in 1999, robbers climbed atop a Loomis, Fargo & Co. tractor-trailer truck while it was being driven down the highway, cut a hole in the thin aluminum roof and snatched 270 pounds of $20, $50 and $100 bills worth 2.3 million dollars before escaping undetected.
gBp9 TIL that while Australia might have all kinds of deadly animals, the entire continent has been rabies free since 2010.
WZad TIL that after defeating the Persians, Alexander The Great started dressing like them and took two Persian wives.
Kmaw TIL Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in Latin. The Vatican reporter who broke the story was the only one in the room who could actually understand the announcement.