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TIL Yao Ming was a chemically engineered propaganda experiment that went well.

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lBnN TIL a Swiss national is serving a 4 year jail term in UAE, after 3 poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.
8e1v8 TIL: Laura Callahan was the CIO of the Department of Labor and then Homeland Security with bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees purchased at a diploma mill. Coworkers complained she used strange technical jargon and belittled them. She was caught, but was not charged with a crime.
EMVP TIL Nails at one time were so expensive that people would burn down old barns just to recover their nails.
rRL00 TIL that you are more likely to die of natural hazards such as snake bites or bushfire than homicide in Australia.
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.