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TIL that a touchstone originally was a piece of slate used to test the purity of precious metal alloys

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5Y8k TIL a Roman serial killer was raped by a specially trained giraffe then torn apart by animals as a form of punishment
LkxZr TIL A mysterious 10-12kg (22-26lbs) icy ball fell into an Indian village. Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. There were reports of villagers taking pieces home to put in their refrigerators. They found it was more likely to be frozen human faeces leaked from a plane overhead.
Yp8PA TIL that western sahara nationality law stuipulates that "children must respect their parents".
ADMO4 TIL of Django Reinhardt, a Jazz Gutiarist of the 1930's. He has been called one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, and he's among the first to play Jazz that featured guitar as the lead instrument. Doing it all while only having 3 fingers on his left hand due to a fire in 1928.
J9Zm TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won