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TIL The German word for "panic buying" is "Hamsterkauf."

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Me76b TIL that during Charles Manson's trial, the judge began carrying a revolver under his robe after Manson charged at him with a pencil.
Y7ZWG TIL that Alexei Nikolaevich, son of the last Russian tsar and heir to the throne, had a severe case of hemophilia inherited from his mother, which in turn she had acquired through the line of her maternal grandmother Victoria of the United Kingdom.
d6Ej TIL falcon breeders often let the male birds copulate with their heads, while the breeder wears a special semen-collecting hat. The breeder then courts a female bird of the same species and squirts the collected semen into her using a syringe. All this due to a process known as sexual imprinting.