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TIL A 71 year old man was acquitted of murder after claiming self-defense when another moviegoer threw popcorn at him

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wLkA8 TIL of Colonel Johnson who publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time.
69A5w TIL in September 1968, Russian cosmonauts fooled NASA into thinking they were landing on the moon using radio relays from Zond 5, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. The cosmonauts knew they would never make it to the moon so they decided to engage in “a little bit of hooliganism.”
ed45 TIL that, during the 1960s, many black civil rights protesters from Detroit were ‘diagnosed’ with schizophrenia (due to their 'hostile’ and 'aggressive’ behavior) and confined to asylums. Some protesters were locked up for more than thirty years and died in custody
e0Ln TIL that in 2006 a Penis was grown in a Lab and Successfully Transplanted onto a Rabbit
P1p7Z TIL that, Nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prize without ever winning it, Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, also discovered the Matilda effect.