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TIL 24 yr old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife

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b6ooj TIL that Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is deaf in one ear, due to getting hit in the side of head with a lead pipe when he was a child.
9YVDQ TIL Ikea is the largest charity in the world, and being a non-profit means they pay just 3.5% in tax instead of the 18% rate they should be paying.
XLMX TIL of the extinct American Lion that used to range all over the U.S. and into South America and was about 25% larger than today’s African Lion.
xvl7 TIL in 2010 a single retired Indian Army soldier armed only with a Kukri defeated 40 bandits who attacked a passenger train he was on
1NDW TIL Germans celebrate Father’s day by having “oddly dressed men pulling wagons filled with beer into parks and drinking until they pass out.”