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7rOLL TIL of David Buckel, who self-immolated to protest the burning of fossil fuels. He left a note to police apologizing for the mess and built a fire ring so the fire would not spread.
O666 TIL there exists the idea, that the growing Hispanic population in the American Southwest will allow Mexico to regain these territories, called the Reconquista.
0ddDy TIL that Napoleon's penis was cut off during his autopsy and was eventually purchased in 1977 by a urologist in Michigan. It is described “as looking like a baby’s finger.”
0w6W5 TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.
16Qkd TIL about the "Bell Island Boom." In 1978, a mysterious and extremely loud explosion occurred in Bell Island, Canada. The blast was audible from up to 100km away, and the energy released was so powerful that the Vela Satelites used by the US Govt to detect nuclear explosions, detected the event.