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TIL that the first person to be executed in the Massachusetts Bay colony was guilty of sex with a turkey

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xVrK5 TIL of the E/I or educational and informative standards that regulate the content of network television programming aimed at a youth audience, forcing networks to drop the classic Saturday morning cartoons.
JYgrV TIL that BMW released an ad on April 1st 2015 saying that they would give away a brand new BMW in exchange for any old car. Suspecting it to be another April Fools prank, no one showed up except one woman. She came in with her 15 year old station wagon and walked off with a £25000 BMW.
BrK5d TIL that Mozart's real name was "Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart"
Bgy5K TIL evidence shows that quantum tunneling particles may move faster than the speed of light
5YLaP TIL of the theft of the Worden Sword and fraud by Antiques Roadshow employees and the involvement of the FBI to recover a priceless stolen sword from the American Civil War