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TIL that dogs have a larger carbon footprint than an SUV

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NXr1E TIL in 2009, popular brazilian crime show host ‘wallace souza’ was charged with hiring hitmen for murders in order to be the first on the scene to boost ratings. he was linked to 5 cases and died before trial.
oBL08 TIL of a vaudeville group that tried to sue a pair of newspapers for libel, after the papers ran scathing reviews of their act in 1898. The judge ruled in favor of the newspaper after the group performed their act in court
oBNRr TIL the PT Cruiser is considered the most unsafe car in recent years, so unsafe that warnings were actually issued about it.
KV4a TIL that an estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers
4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.