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TIL A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible

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Rww9 TIL a man named Wally Wallington proved that with rudimentary tools it is possible to move thousands of pounds of stone and even entire buildings single-handed, and is constructing Stonehenge: RELOADED in his Flint, Michigan backyard.
awZ1L TIL French courts have the ability to stop parents giving ‘inappropriate’ names to their children: in 2015 they ordered that a girl should be called ‘Ella’ and not ‘Nutella’ as originally intended.
Wkw9d TIL There was a point when plants made so much oxygen that nearly everything died. This event was called the Great Oxygen Event, but also referred to as the Oxygen Holocaust.
9YlVD TIL the angel Gabriel was a messenger to Daniel in Jewish scripture, to Mary in Christian scripture, to Muhammad in Muslim scripture, and to Joseph Smith in Mormon scripture.
LkWZV TIL in 1986, when a five-year-old boy fell into a gorilla cage, the giant male gorilla named Jambo stood between the unconscious boy and the other hungry pack of apes saving his life. Later he even stroked his hair.