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TIL that a Bangladeshi immigrant to the US who was maimed and nearly killed by a Texan after 9/11 later fought to save him from death row.

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nWy4W TIL that Scotland was once home to 2 feet long scorpions
e0pn6 TIL in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and took flight to a height of 16,000 feet. He did so because he was denied entry in the US Air Force due to poor eyesight.
QBNd TIL Dominoes discontinued use of their mascot “The Noid” after a mentally ill Kenneth Lamar Noid, thinking the character was based on him, held a Dominoes hostage and later killed himself.
yQPWa TIL that a woman tried to sue the Captain Crunch cereal company because she believed crunch berries were real fruit for 4 years before she found out they were just cereal.
XEV6E TIL that when German intelligence discovered the phrase "Killroy was here" during World War 2 Hitler believed Killroy was the name of a high-level Allied spy