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TIL about Ratón Pérez. The Spanish mouse equivalent of the Tooth Fairy

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E1Yb0 TIL that in 1856, a teacher strangled his student to death for killing his pet sparrow. The student's father shot and killed the teacher
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OG8LY TIL The last person to be convicted of Treason in the US was Tomoya Kawakita in 1952 because of his role in WW2, but was released by President Kennedy to be deported back to Japan.