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TIL NASA once raided a Denny's as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a moon rock the size of a rice grain

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xVW10 TIL Blue and Yellow Mud Wasps aka Mud Daubers are not aggressive towards humans and actually function as pollinators and control spider populations, such as the Black Widow.
V5rD TIL after a Groom forgot his wedding pants in the dressing room of a Minnesota clothier and flew to Costa Rica for his wedding, the Clothier sent his daughter on an 11-hour flight to deliver the pants personally because UPS and FedEx said they could not help.
rRwOo TIL that croissants are not a French pastry but an Austrian one. They were originally created in Vienna to celebrated the Christian’s defeat of the Ottoman army in 1683.
6LQ TIL that a 1,000 year old “fish trap” made of stones was found off the British coast with Google Maps
QJGQe TIL of André Stander, a South African police officer who robbed almost 30 banks. Sometimes he’d carry out a crime during his lunch break and then return to the scene as an investigating officer. He was caught but escaped, formed a gang and robbed more banks. He was eventually killed in Florida.