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TIL that police drug dogs are actually looking for their favourite toy

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woDnM TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo, where 150 were shot and the remaining 36 were buried up to their necks and eaten alive by red ants, while the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song Those Were the Days
N7lNJ TIL Karen was the most popular name for girls in California in the early 1960s
x6aDw TIL That Australian University developed World's first Bionic Eye to fully restore the vision of blind people.
v11ZK TIL Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to be dragged behind horses until dead. Then their genitals cut off and burnt before their eyes before their dead bodies were decapitated
b9D4N TIL there's a near perfectly preserved 17th Century Swedish galleon in a Stockholm museum