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TIL Animal Planet aired a fake documentary about the existence of mermaids that convinced thousand of viewers. Twice.

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lpm1 TIL that the “Cadillac-driving welfare queen” made famous by Reagan’s speeches was a real person – and her crime and deception extended far beyond welfare fraud.
xJbo TIL on this date in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC the Wright Brothers had the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.
kO6b1 TIL that there is patch of snow in Scotland that has disappeared only a total of seven times in the last 300 years. Nicknamed the Sphinx it is said to be the most permanent and closely studied patch of snow in the British Isles.
aDp9 TIL Kim Jong-Il’s personal sushi chef escaped from North Korea in 2001 by telling the supreme leader he wanted to buy a sea urchin to cook for him. He subsequently wrote a memoir about his experiences with Kim Jong-Il.
9Yk57 TIL During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.