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TIL a British intelligence agent was found dead in his apartment, having been stuffed-naked-inside a duffel bag that was padlocked from the outside. A police investigation ruled it an accident

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5VoxD TIL: Buzz Aldrin although the second man on the moon was the first man to pee while on it.
E1Ex0 TIL about Sholam Weiss, a man who led a scheme that defrauded a life insurance company out of $450 million. For his crimes he was sentenced to 845 years in US federal prison, later reduced to 835 years, and his projected release date is November 23, 2754.
16nD7 TIL the name for the state of California has nothing to do with indigenous languages. The name comes from a popular Spanish chivalric romance series where California is a fictional island (1510)
Ge5 TIL In ancient Rome the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster.
j6y5Q TIL that for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, Eugène Mercier decided to promote his champagne by presenting a gigantic 200,000-bottle champagne sculpted barrel. It was so large that 5 buildings had to be demolished to allow it to pass through the streets to the place where it was to be exhibited.