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TIL in Arthurian legend, the Questing Beast was a creature with the head of a serpent, body of a leopard, haunches of a lion, and feet of a deer. It may have inspired by third-hand descriptions of giraffes from merchants

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jNrpv TIL about ‘the bloody Benders’, America’s first serial killer family. They are known to have killed 11 people between 1868 and 1872, luring each of them into their hotel in Cherryvale, Kansas. They disappeared before their crimes were discovered and were never seen again.
wBy8 TIL A customer was gifted overgenerous contract terms due to a misplaced comma in a contract with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The erroneous comma radically altered the inflation-adjustment formula resulting in $70 million loss to Lockheed Martin.
EKE7 TIL in the Brazilian translation of Star Wars, Count Dooku’s name was changed to Dookan because in portuguese “Dooku” can be roughly translated to “from the ass” or even “I do anal”
KO9K4 TIL according to The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Sting spent years trying to find rhymes for "every little thing she does is magic", only able to come up with "tragic" and "pelagic".
rNyEe TIL about Mount Kumgang, a North Korean resort that was opened in 1998 for Southern vacationers during a time of increased North-South cooperation. However, South Korea suspended tours in 2008 when a SK woman was shot dead after wandering into an off limits area. It was later demolished in 2022.