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TIL the Leeroy Jenkins video was staged

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XDAQ TIL a nine year-old boy robbed a New York bank in 1981 and got away with $118.
YpPKW TIL: Virtually every country named syphilis after its enemies. The French called it the Neapolitan disease, the English and Italians called it the French disease, Russians called it the Polish disease, Tahitians called it the British disease, and the Japanese called it the Chinese pox.
5Vgl9 TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.
p80YO TIL that male lizards masturbate. Sorry, if this is against the rules.
Zp78D TIL about the Indian Vulture Crisis, in which Indian farmers’ use of a livestock medication led to the near eradication of vulture species and subsequent epidemiological catastrophe, costing the nation US$23bn per year