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TIL that an heir to the Red Bull fortune killed a Bangkok police officer with his Ferrari in 2012 and still has never appeared at the prosecutor’s office to face charges.

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gMJ9L TIL Timothy Treadwell, also known as 'The Grizzly Man' originally wanted to become an actor and auditioned for the part of Woody Boyd in Cheers.
v1aer TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was already 2,500 years old when Cleopatra was ruler.
Y7pQB TIL Odin and Loki would make fun of each other by bringing up their sex lives. Odin would make fun of Loki for enjoying the form of a mare in order to produce great horses, and Loki made fun of Odin for enjoying seið magic, which often involved being the passive receiver of sexual penetration.
x5J1 TIL that in 1140, when the Weibertreu Castle was defeated by King Konrad III, the women of the castle were granted free departure and allowed to take what they could carry. Thinking quickly, the women carried the men on their backs. The king kept his word and let the men live.
xVYMD TIL that there is a satirical Danish short show series called Nazitübbies that tries to imagine what the show Teletubbies would have been like had Nazis won the WWII