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TIL that a Texas man who shot an armadillo, got hit in the face by his own bullet that bounced off from the hard shell

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vPedj TIL that the British colonizers set about defining 2,378 castes belonging to 43 “races,” by measuring the noses. They called it the "nasal index"
69MRQ TIL about Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man facing death row despite provable innocence. His execution date is September 24th, and despite both defense and prosecutors believing his innocence, attempts to move for clemency have been blocked.
QXwE TIL that a war refugee from Montenegro came to New York and began working at Columbia University as a janitor. He used Columbia’s tuition remission for employees to earn a bachelor’s degree in classics. It took him twelve years.
x6565 TIL of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a government death squad in Apartheid South Africa. Accused of murders, they also bombed a kindergarten, harassed a dissident by pointing a RPG7 at him while forcing him to drink moonshine, and tried to bewitch Desmond Tutu by hanging a baboon fetus in his home.
Me1eK TIL the brown paths of worn down grass are called "desire paths"