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TIL that a man was found guilty of an unsolved murder by tattooing the murder scene on his chest

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grOpD TIL that an unknown 19th century Japanese artist painted a parody of the sacred scene of the Buddha's death that is commonly called the "Penis Paranirvana", in which the dying Buddha is replaced by a giant anthropomorphic penis being mourned by women and other penises.
NOx8 TIL that robots have r/Showerthoughts: An AI failed to understand “Fred shaving”. It detected an inconsistency: people don’t have electrical parts, but Fred had an electric razor, so it believed “FredShaving” contained electrical parts and asked whether Fred was still a person while he was shaving.
XE47Q TIL that Lamborghini was originally a tractor manufacturer and only after an argument with Enzo Ferrari did they start creating sports cars
dn78 TIL a US cargo plane crashed while moving children from Vietnam. American businessman Robert Macauley heard that it would take over a week to evacuate the survivors, so he chartered a Boeing 747 and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.
ajgM TIL that since its creation in July 2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has helped return more than $10.1 billion to more than 17 million consumers tricked by deceptive financial practices