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TIL in 1942 Disney made a cartoon about donating bacon grease to help win the war

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E1r60 TIL The Portuguese military was born from the Templar Knights. King Dinis offered refuge when they were exterminated. Later, Queen Maria secularized them, and when the monarchy was abolished the grand master became the first president. Today, the order is awarded to valiant soldiers.
e8LJ TIL that possibly the world’s oldest surviving written text (around 4500-years old), known as the ‘Instructions of Shuruppak’, gives the following advice - “Do not pass judgment when you drink beer.”
9oZr TIL of “The Lipstick Killer”, William Heirens. In the 1940s he was convicted of killing 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan, Frances Brown and Josephine Ross. Heirens got his nickname because he wrote, “For heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself,” on Brown’s wall in lipstick.
xVG0b TIL that Baltimore has a higher murder rate than Honduras or El Salvador, and 10% of the population is addicted to heroin
BGGr TIL there is a golf course in Australia with full-grown bull sharks living in the water hazards