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TIL shortly after a woman made up a fake Facebook profile to speak with her troubled 19yo niece, the niece asked the fictional boy to murder her Aunt, her Aunt’s fiance, her cousin, and the family dog

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kJO0e TIL that in 1715, Jacobite rebels attempted to storm Edinburgh Castle. The ladder they brought was too short, so the attempt failed, and they were all arrested.
awOpy TIL electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. It was used as early as the third millennium BCE in Egypt, as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop pyramids and obelisks. The first metal coins ever made were of electrum and for a few decades, the Nobel Prize medals were too.
rRrd1 TIL that "aiding and abetting" is not itself a criminal offense, but is the basis for criminal liability. For example, if you drive the getaway car in a bank robbery, you can be charged with the federal crime of bank robbery on the basis of aiding and abetting even if you never enter the bank.
X0OjR TIL Kazuyoshi Miura holds the distinction of having the world’s longest professional football career, and, as of 2023, is the oldest professional footballer in the world at 55. He also holds the unique distinction of having played professional football in five separate decades (1980s–2020s)
9wW7r TIL only people who were of Genghis Kahn's royal lineage were allowed to rule Mongolia. In 1578 Altan Khan bestowed the first title of "Dalai Lama" upon Sonam Gyatsho who in return proclaimed Altan to be the reincarnation of Kublai Khan giving Atlan legitimacy to rule over the Mongols.