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TIL that after a woman murdered her husband and attempted suicide, their pet parrot who was the sole witness began repeating what's thought to have been their last conversation, including the words: "Don't shoot!"

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wWao TIL that in 2014 a family had to leave their $450,000 home after it was infested with 4,500 - 6,000 brown recluse spiders and exterminators were not able to get rid of them.
neBm7 TIL The most ancient archaeological record of a prehistoric massacre is in Sudan, with 14,000 years old skeletons, half of them with arrowheads embedded in, which indicates that they may have been the casualties of warfare. This likely occurred in the wake of a local ecological crisis.
0wloy TIL 100 million years ago, dinosaurs would get high by eating psychedelic fungi.
EAdx TIL Minecraft’s creator, Markus Persson, had severe OCD and needed everything to be placed in its own square on a grid in his mind, leading to the cubic design of the game we know today.
R70W9 It’ll take LA as much as $6.4 billion to fortify itself against an impending increase in coastal flooding, with moves such as nourishing its beaches with extra sand and elevating its ports.