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TIL that an Ohio woman who abandoned kittens was sentenced to sleep in the woods, with no food or entertainment.

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W4Lo TIL that injecting yourself intravenously with papayas would cause your Immunoglobulins to fragment, resulting in the cease of function of the adaptive immune system.
lMD5 TIL that in 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.
ZObo TIL Delaware has more registered companies than residents and 300,000 of them share the same address
8DDV TIL that pilots eat different meals to avoid food poisoning
PbMG TIL that Henry Heimlich, founder of the Heimlich maneuver, purposely infected Africans and Chinese with MALARIA because he thought it would cure them of HIV/AIDS. He still believes this to to be true.