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TIL that A 14 year old british boy battling depression created fake online personas to persuade his best friend to attempt his murder. Miraculously surviving the attack, he entered the UK's records as the first person ever charged with inciting their own murder.

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VBOak TIL Mal Meninga’s political career lasted exactly 28 seconds. He resigned his candidacy in the same interview he announced it after not having a good answer to why he was running.
4MN5 TIL that you can tell identical twin babies apart from their navels, since navel is a scar and thus they’re different.
D1xXv TIL the first line in the first feature-length film with sound was, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet."
ANDKa TIL the reason why coffee makes you poop is because caffeine activates contractions in your colon and intestinal muscles.
6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959