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TIL After assaulting two people, Monroe Isadore, a 107-year-old man from Arkansas, died in a shootout with a SWAT team.

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7r8ZX In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thandiwe Mweetwa explains how female lions synchronize their reproductive cycles so they have cubs around the same time.
WkBnX TIL that Chiropractic Medicine is pure quackery!
gLKX TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
drNB TIL that German ww2 pilots in North Africa would fix bottles of Coca Cola to the underside of their wings so the drink would cool at high altitude, then be ready to drink after landing.
QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.