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TIL that the movie “Mars Attacks” is based off of a Topps trading cards series

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woAP7 TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
0de8v TIL that multiple animals, including Adele Penguins and Chimpanzees, participate in prostitution.
X0Q7r TIL after boxes of booster packs containing unreleased Magic: The Gathering cards were opened online, the publisher Wizards of the Coast sent Pinkerton agents to the home of the presenter to retrieve them. They confiscated 22 boxes after a confrontation that reportedly made the presenter's wife cry.
pYpO TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French physicist attempted a one-man invasion of an island and was arrested while reloading his gun on a bench by the island’s volunteer constable.
8aRXX TIL a nurse paid over $400,000 to a Nigerian 419 scam over the course of 3 years re-mortgaging her house and using her husband's retirement savings