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TIL Heat stroke can lead to septic shock, necrosis, and multi-organ failure

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a8Yky TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.
gMwy8 TIL There is a city in the U.K that had a problem with "street drinkers" eating it's pigeons.
OoMAY TIL in 2004 Norwegian robbers stole 57.4 million kroner from a NOKAS cash depot. They were all found and jailed in the next 3 years, but the case had cost Norway about 160 million kroner to solve, and only about 6.4 million were recovered.
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epEjL TIL Before Washington, DC became the capital of the US, George Washington and John Adams lived in the President's House in Philadelphia during their presidencies. Due to confusion over its location, it was accidentally demolished in 1951. A public toilet was built over the site it once stood.