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TIL that there are dogs who are trained to sniff out electronic devices such as HDD, thumb drives and phones, used often in child porn cases.

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BgJJb TIL that there is not one documented instance of someone getting burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. They were instead hanged or jailed.
GWZ1 TIL actor Norman Reedus was first discovered at a party in Los Angeles where he started screaming with giant sunglasses on
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