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TIL the heaviest thing you can get shipped free from Amazon is a 1,500-pound safe.

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9VJ7 TIL That 18 material witnesses died within 3 years after JFK’s death - six by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, three from heart attacks, and two from natural causes.
d8jdB TIL even though the country of Serbia is currently a republic with no royal family, their national seal and flag still retain the Serbian royal crown from the former Kingdom of Serbia.
MBBV TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
e0Nw5 TIL until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with adult feasting and merry-making. He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents, nocturnal visits, stockings or chimneys.
PYrWJ TIL that Alice Cooper has no memory of recording three albums in the early eighties, because of his substance abuse.