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TIL a woman suspecting her husband was cheating followed his car to a home and broke in looking for him. It turned out she was at the wrong place and the occupant of the home shot her dead.

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XEd0Q TIL there’s so much bourbon coming out of Kentucky that the number of barrels is larger than the number of people in the state!
9vkX TIL that there is no known written documentation of the food dish known as “fajitas” prior to 1971.
5kQ8 TIL Disney threatened to sue three daycare centers in Hallandale, Florida for the unauthorized use of their characters. Universal Studios responded by giving the daycares the permission to paint their licensed characters, including those from Hanna-Barbera.
eWO5 TIL mathematician Zachary Harris hacked into Google’s email system and sent a e-mail phishing attack to Larry Page from Sergey Brin’s e-mail account. All because he noticed a flaw in an e-mail sent from Google offering him a job and thought it was a test. It wasn’t.
NXVy8 TIL swans in the United Kingdom belong to the crown, except in Orkney and Shetland: there they are the property of the people due to udal law, a Norse-derived legal system