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TIL A passenger was turned away from two flights because he was wearing 10 layers of clothing to avoid extra luggage fees

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4Xbdg TIL Of An Intense Battle Between A Crocodile and An Olive Python. The 10-ft snake, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two struggled in the water. The snake later brought the dead crocodile onto land and ate it.
mxZeo TIL: Piggly Wiggly was the first true self-service grocery store. Before their founding in September 6, 1916, grocery stores did not allow their customers to gather their own goods. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then go through the store, gathering them.
gMkWb TIL of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts, which was a form of torture and execution used from roughly 900 CE until it was banned in 1905. It involved methodically slicing portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.
Dnbe TIL Lobsters were considered poor people food, prisoners used to complain they were forced to eat lobster too often
rRvG0 TIL, the book "death by starvation", written by Hegesias of Cyrene, a philosopher who believed that life was futile and advocated for suicide, was so influential that it convinced a number of people to kill themselves. Subsequently, Hegesias was banned from teaching in Alexandria