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TIL that a woman created a fake facebook profile of a teenage girl and sent a friend request to her husband, then used transcripts of their conversations to get him arrested. He was freed and all charges were dropped when he produced a notarized affidavit, proving he knew it was her all along. (thesmokinggun.com)

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TIL: Fiji Water once ran an ad campaign stating "The label says Fiji because it's not bottled in Cleveland". The city of Cleaveland responded by testing both Fiji water and their own tap water. They found 6.3 micrograms of arsenic in Fiji water, and none in their own. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Russia has a monument to laboratory mice, to celebrate their contribution to science (vsuete.com)

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TIL a sugar rush is a placebo effect. Sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity (yalescientific.org)

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TIL it is illegal to burn the flag of any country in Denmark, with the exception of the Danish flag itself. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that after David Bowie released his album "Low", Nick Lowe responded by releasing an EP called "Bowi". (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Reykjavik's City Council decided to turn off city lights in order to allow residents to enjoy a fantastic Northern Lights display without artificial light pollution. (icelandmonitor.mbl.is)

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TIL that Jefferson Davis in 1861 hoped to become a general in the Confederate Army. He was stunned and horrified to learn that he had been elected the first president of the Confederate States of America. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL when George Washington first ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses, he attributed his defeat to failing to offer enough alcohol to voters. Two years later, he distributed 144 gallons of rum, punch, hard cider & beer - a half gallon per vote. He won the election. (vinepair.com)

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TIL McDonalds intentionally created exactly four different shapes for chicken nuggets. According to the company, “three would’ve been too few. Five would’ve been, like, wacky.” (businessinsider.com.au)

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TIL the three gorges dam in China holds back so much water it slows the rotation of the earth slightly. (businessinsider.com)

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TIL The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the scent that plants release when in distress. (mentalfloss.com)

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TIL that the US Flag Code states when a flag is no longer in appropriate condition it "should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." (usflag.org)

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TIL that the first grandchild of Queen Victoria to die died in 1866 and the last to die died in 1981. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Nowhere in the Bible does it say that exactly three magi came to visit the baby Jesus, nor that they were kings, or rode on camels, or that their names were Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar. (snopes.com)

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TIL The poem "First they came" was actually written by a repentant Nazi supporter who wound up in a concentration camp himself. While his poem is usually taken as a warning about political apathy, it can also be taken as a warning against the dangers of divisive politics. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and many other companies, paid off the rent for his house during college by hosting 1,000+ sized nightclub parties and charging an admission for entry (nextshark.com)

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TIL Red heads require 20% more anaesthesia then normal during surgery (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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TIL that in 1987, Myanmar lowered its official literacy rate from 79% to 19% in order to qualify for least developed country status to receive UN debt relief. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL in 2008, a New Mexico man tried to stage his suicide to look like a murder by tying the gun to helium-filled balloons. The lead agent solved the "murder" when others pointed out the same thing happened in an episode of CSI. (abcnews.go.com)

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TIL: You have the EXACT SAME taste buds in your intestine as you do in your tongue. In your tongue, the buds are hooked up to your brain's pleasure centers. In your intestine, they're hooked up to your pancreas where they trigger the release of insulin. (healthworkscollective.com)

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TIL California has a recycle rate of nearly 100% on aluminum cans, due to fraudulent recycling rings (articles.latimes.com)

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TIL in 2006, more than 2/3 of the House of Representatives passed a resolution to amend the US constitution to make flag desecration illegal, and the resolution failed in the Senate by only one vote (66-34). (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that some top-selling cars and trucks are using special speakers to pipe sound files of a roaring engine into your vehicle's cabin to make more efficient cars sound more powerful (washingtonpost.com)

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TIL that Stephen Wolfram dropped out of Eton because of boredom. He went to Oxford, but again dropped out. He went to Caltech, and received a PhD in particle physics at the age of 20. (ithistory.org)

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