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TIL In the opening sequence of the Simpsons, when Marge accidentally scans her baby Maggie, the price reads “847.63”, which was the average cost of raising a baby at the time

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LkdAr TIL about the legendary pickpocket Apollo Robbins, who once stripped Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail of their watches, badges, keys, and the presidential itinerary. He once stole a man’s driver’s license and made it turn up inside a sealed bag of M&M’s in his wife’s purse.
X0vDj TIL about the "Judas Wolf technique". This involves capturing a wolf in a net and putting a radio collar on it to lead government-contracted shooters back to its pack so they can be killed.
KnKR TIL That the Harvard debate team lost to a team of inmates serving time for manslaughter.
vPQZL TIL about Sombra, a Colombian police dog so good at sniffing out drugs that drug cartels literally put a bounty on her head. She helped seize over 9 tons of cocaine, so they had to assign her bodyguards and relocate her for her own safety. Q
0YVM TIL: A prisoner was murdered by prison guards by spraying him with 180 degree water from a hose, choking him with steam, and peeling his skin off his body.