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TIL "RentAHitman" has an average of 15-20 requests of genuine attempted murder every month for the past 14+ years.

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Dxjg TIL a Florida millionaire was being sued for a wrongful death resulting from DUI, so he adopted his 42 year-old girlfried because the court had ruled that the trust set up for his children could not be considered as part of his financial worth.
4kM7o TIL about ichneumon wasps, a family of parasitic wasps that lays their eggs in butterfly cocoons, spider nests, or into larger insects directly. The adult wasp paralyzes the hosts such that the ichneumon larvae can feed. After some weeks, the now-mature offspring then emerge en masse from the host
OovKg TIL during the 19th century, a Muslim caliphate in West Africa called Sokoto enslaved 1-2.5 million people
6EwZ7 TIL of the original order of assassins, a muslim sect that forged a small kingdom in the holy lands through conversion and strategic murder before eventually being slaughtered by the Mongols
pyEb TIL that Santa’s canadian postal code is H0H 0H0. You can write a letter to Sana in any language and get a letter back.