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TIL the most valuable heist in Canadian history involved 3000 tons of maple syrup worth $18.7 million

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9Y8eX TIL of the unsolved Keddie murders where a woman living in a rural California cabin was killed with her teenage son and his friend, and her daughter kidnapped, while younger boys were left sleeping in an adjacent room. The remains of the kidnapped daughter were found 3 years later after a tip-off
dDV8 TIL Magenta, also known as Pink, does not exist in the natural light spectrum, and is the only color that does not exist within a single wavelength.
Yp6O7 TIL you should never wash a cast iron pan with soap because it can strip off the oil you've baked and cooked into the dish. Also, when you first get a cast iron, you need to "season" it by baking oil into it and each time you use it, the layers of oil and flavor will build.
xoaD TIL When the British burned down the White House in the War of 1812, first they ate the meal that was set out for the President
YNAB TIL two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”