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TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis"

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E1EQP TIL an Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to spend day at the "stinkiest, smelliest" section of a landfill, as punishment for animal neglect. "If you puke, you puke"
x6KRg TIL of the de Mailly-Nesle Sisters, 4 out of 5 of whom were Mistresses to King Louis XV of France
MeQEB TIL that corgis are stallions to fairies according to Welsh folklore.
pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee
xVong TIL that HMS Jervis, a destroyer which served in the Royal Navy during WW2, did not lose a single crew member to enemy action despite having participated in 13 major actions and serving throughout the war.