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TIL Paper-towels are NOT recyclable

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nem8d TIL that a criminal network of doctors that served the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco stole up to 300,000 babies from mothers that were poor or anti-fascist and gave them to families that supported Franco, even after his death.
gVW9 TIL a man was stabbed by a fugitive on a train, then had to overpower his own assailant while the cops stayed in the operator’s cab.
V7Wp TIL: A man named John Horrocks was shot by his camel, and died later from gangrene. Before his death he ordered the camel to also be shot. This means the only recorded gunfight between a camel and a man technically ended in a draw.
DQMdr TIL that Oxford University held a grudge against a man for around 550 years, requiring students to swear an oath to never reconcile with him. They stopped because the university forgot who he was or what he did.
rNYmy TIL Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise (Harriet) didn't die until recently at an estimated age of 175 years.