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TIL that people build “spite houses” to piss off their neighbors.

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7VXp TIL Karla Homolka tortured and raped three children with her husband, and likely killed them, but was only convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years… Despite there being videos of her committing the rape and torture. She was released in 2005 and now has three children.
d8aQj TIL that Tolkien never once describes the elves as having pointed ears.
nep67 TIL A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor while a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret.
W7vBd TIL that honey bees can recognize human faces. They see faces much like pixels in a digital image.
6EarX TIL about Aimo Leikas, a Finnish magician who killed himself in front of a crowd while performing his Russian Roulette act. He had been perfoming the act for a year, selecting six bullets from a box of assorted live and dummy ammunition.