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TIL there have been MANY cases of "elephant lynching", or the killing of an elephants for spectacle with pseudo-legal or performative aspects, in the United States

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VDgm TIL That the Wall album is technically a loop that goes on forever, because the first and last words of the first and last songs come together to make the sentence “Isn’t this…where we came in?,” thus restarting the entire album.
xXK7 TIL on December 1, 1948, a dead man bearing no identification was found on an Australian beach. Well dressed in clothes with deliberately torn-out labels, in excellent physical condition, and having left behind a rare book containing a bizarre code, the man remains unidentified to this day.
9YJrQ TIL citizens of Monaco are a small minority of its population, with only 21%. In comparison, French citizens are 28% of the population.
a8k8A TIL there’s an album of 27 songs, one for each of the 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
OBxe TIL When Teddy Roosevelt was president, you could just draw big teeth and circular glasses on an envelope and the letter would end up at the White House (Conan’s new interview show…awesome)