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TIL that Colonel Sanders once studied Law and served as a Justice of the Peace in Little Rock, but his legal career ended abruptly after he got into a courtroom brawl with a client.
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TIL Columbo's signature catchphrase "Just one more thing" originated because a scene was too short, and the writers didn't want to retype the script on a typewriter, so they just had him return and add the line at the end as if he'd forgotten something.
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TIL about the "Phantom of Heilbronn," a mysterious female serial killer suspect who baffled German police for years, until it turned out the DNA evidence was contaminated by factory workers making the cotton swabs used in forensic tests.
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TIL Uday Hussein was a big fan of Star Wars and he made the fighters of the Fedayeen Saddam wear helmets inspired by Darth Vader’s
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TIL the UK tried to ban raves in 1994, with an act criminalizing gatherings where '"music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.'
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TIL of Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser - a journalist that ran a twitter account for informing Saudi citizens about local corruption and human rights. He was publicly executed for these 'crimes' 3 weeks ago
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TIL Coin reeded edges were originally introduced to prevent coin clipping/ to stop shaving bits off
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TIL in 2014 a Dutch woman was ID'd as one of the babies born in prison and kidnapped during Argentina’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983
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TIL only one Navy ship in active duty have sank an enemy ship: USS Constitution. (also the oldest active Navy ship)
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TIL that in 2003 Iraqi Insurgents attempted to shoot down a European Air Transport Airbus A300 cargo plane flying from Baghdad to Bahrain, but ultimately failed when the plane was able to return to Baghdad and land with severe damage. The firing of the missle was all caught on camera!
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TIL recording sound on magnetic wires was used before magnetic tapes in the early 1900s, and use of magnetic wires persisted into the 1960s for recorders designed for stealth use, including one with a microphone disguised as a wristwatch
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TIL the first known surviving nonuplets (9 children) were born in Morocco in 2021.