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TIL police in west Germany located a man who had a warrant for unpaid fines. They confronted him just as his slot machine struck a jackpot, and he avoided jail time by paying his fine on the spot.

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9RZ7 TIL that the Mars company does not approve of people deep frying their chocolate bars because “it does not fit the company’s promotion of healthy living”.
aWOy TIL that anyone over the age 18 can perform a marriage ceremony in the state of Alaska.
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
9wre7 TIL these days. Today I learned the letter B comes after A
MZDa TIL 7 members of an isolated Indian tribe emerged from the Amazon and made contact with people in a village near the Peruvian border because “violent attacks” by outsiders had driven them from the forest. Later, details emerged that their elder relatives were massacred and their houses set on fire.