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nQdd TIL that 2 years ago, the Dutch police caught cannabis growers because their house was the only one in the street without snow on the roof.
015A Til the first item sold on Ebay was a broken laser pointer for 14.83, to someone who kept a broken laser pointer collection
LpEV TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
KRGa TIL Cats were so revered in ancient Egypt that when a cat died, the household would go into mourning and would shave their eyebrows to signify their loss. However, when the temple of Bast was discovered in 1888, the mummified cats were ground up and sold as fertilizer.
mMJR TIL there was only one Australian Aboriginal pilot in WWII nicknamed “The Black Magic” who after his service, lived the rest of his days in housing projects as a sheep shearer.