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TIL an Australian guy shot his mate dead so he could steal his mates' $40000 worth of honey

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9v87 TIL that a monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
wAj8 TIL Tokyo has a self-declared superhero who calls himself Mangetsu Man. He keeps his identity secret by wearing a purple bodysuit, with a big yellow smiley head; and his self-described job is to keep the city trash free.
VMXj8 TIL The first Back to the Future script was rejected 40 times before Universal bought it. Disney declined after saying it was a “movie about incest” referring to the scene in which Marty kisses the 18-year-old version of his mother.
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