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TIL that investigators missed incriminating Google searches done on Casey Anthony’s computer - including “fool-proof suffication [sic]” - because they checked her Internet Explorer history but ignored Firefox.

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8ePOL TIL in the early 1930s, Cadillac's policy was to not sell cars to black people. In 1933, Nicholas Dreystadt, a middle manager at General Motors, crashed a GM executive committee meeting and convinced them to drop the policy and instead market to black people. Sales increased by 70% within a year.
0wErj TIL a million people live in Sakha, the coldest inhabited place on Earth, where the temperature can drop as low as -90 degrees
BryYL TIL of Ronald McIntosh. In 1986, McIntosh escaped from prison, stole a helicopter and landed it at another prison’s exercise yard to pick up convicted bank robber Samantha Lopez. The pair were arrested by the FBI 10 days later and McIntosh received 25 years for air piracy and escape.
LQkv0 TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
PY1nn TIL that brown scales develop on your skin if you don't bath after a week, it's called Dermatitis Neglecta