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TIL helium-3, an isotope commonly found in space (but not on Earth) could solve clean energy.

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74kX TIL when friends of a deceased drag queen were clearing out her belongings, they found a 15-year old mummified body in a trunk, wrapped in leather.
PLGw TIL that in 1999, the CEO of Sun Microsystems responded to increasing concerns about computer privacy by saying “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
neopo TIL 95% of individuals in the witness protection program are criminals, but only 10% of these people re-offend. Ex-prisoners have a recidivism rate of 65%+
loAbN TIL in 1995 a man broke into the California National Guard Armory, stole a Tank, and went on a rampage through San Diego
5Vgbr TIL - The Stone of Destiny, an ancient stone on which Scottish monarchs had been crowned, was taken from Scotland, by King Edward I of England in 1296, and in 1950 4 Scottish students from the University of Glasgow stole the Stone from Westminster Abbey in London and took it back to Scotland