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TIL that the Pink Panthers are an international jewel thief network responsible for a number of robberies and thefts described as some of the most audacious in the history of organized crime since 2003. The organization has roughly 800 men and women core members, many of whom are ex-soldiers.

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jN1Dv TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt
lkvN TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century, and never smiled in photographs to not appear stereotypical.
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VMPM8 TIL that the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates based all of his theories on superficial observations like texture, colors, and symptoms. Human dissection was considered taboo in Ancient Greece until Alexandrian physicians began dissecting cadavers in the third century B.C.
loBJa TIL there were ethnic German villages in Turkey until the last villager died in 1999