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TIL Steve Wozniak put a fake bomb in a locker during high school and spent the night in a juvenile detention center where he taught prisoners how to disconnect the ceiling fan wires and connect them to bars so it would shock people on touch

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vPGG8 TIL about the Brazen bull a torture device used in Ancient Greece. The condemned were locked inside the stomach, a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death, pipes would transfer the screams through the bull's nostrils, as if the bull was bellowing.
BrOMy TIL from the 1860s to the 1928, in some jurisdictions of the Southern United States, prisoners were leased to private businesses
JYQQB TIL that the Shaggy defense, AKA "It Wasn't Me", is a real legal strategy often cited in criminal proceedings and legal writing as such.
d8YmZ TIL that only specific types of sand are useful in important building materials like concrete. This has creates a shortage of sand in some areas leading to black markets for illegally mined sand run by sand mafias and sand pirates.
OolB4 TIL of the HMS Hercule. Originally a French 74-gun battleship. She was captured on her maiden voyage less than 24 hours at sea, spending the rest of her career with the British Navy.