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TIL there are wild wallabies in the UK

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nrGb TIL that when a sheriff from Florida was asked, why deputies shot a suspect 68 times, he replied “Because we ran out of bullets.”
x0wg Today I learned that an FBI agent sold secrets to the Soviets and Russia for 22 years, and when caught said, “what took you so long?”
J117B TIL an African American WW1 veteran was tied to a tree with tire chains, and shot as many as 50 times for refusing to move off a sidewalk for a white woman
RvBl TIL: There is a nonprofit that lets you make microloans as little as $25 to help people escape poverty, has taken in nearly $700 million, gives 100% of your donation to the cause, and has a repayment rate of 98.80%
loYrN TIL that George Orwell fought in the spanish civil war and was shot in the neck. There is now a square in Barcelona named after him called 'Plaça de George Orwell'. Ironically, the square was once one of the most heavily surveillanced places in Spain.