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TIL of two students who attacked a pensioner in his own home and was let off from jail time or from being expelled from university because they “had come from an “excellent background” and “had their lives ahead of them””

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kOnD4 TIL that it can take a photon 40,000 years to reach the surface of the sun from the core, but only 8 minutes to travel to earth.
D1aMv TIL of a Greek wedding tradition that brides write the names of their single girlfriends on the bottom of their wedding day shoes, and the first woman’s name to be erased will be the next to get married.
0m8L TIL In 2011, the toast sandwich was named the UK’s “cheapest meal.”
v17xR TIL Toads have a robotic prey system, will recognize a moving horizontal line as prey and try to eat it but not a moving vertical line
POWg TIL - There’s a guy who is trying to Gump it across all 50 states. He’d finished 31 states so far.