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TIL that a woman with no criminal history spent a month in jail after cops found what they thought was a spoon with meth residue. She was released after tests confirmed the “meth residue” was spaghetti sauce.

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nedZb TIL: A guy called Arnold Potter who thought he was Jesus rode a donkey to the edge of the bluffs, whereupon he leapt off the edge intending to "ascend," but instead fell to his death. His body was collected and buried by his followers.
vPYr TIL R.L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” children’s books, also wrote the novelization of the film “Spaceballs”
7rl4L TIL George Lucas's original name for Yoda was... Buffy
b9aXj TIL multiple American POWs in the hands of the Japanese were used as subjects in medical experiments. In one such experiment, an anesthetized prisoner had his entire lung removed, and in another, doctors drilled through the skull of a live prisoner.
GM64 TIL that the philtrum (the groove in the middle of your upper lip) exists in all mammals. It’s much narrower in non-primates, and uses capillary action to keep the nose wet with saliva (ie. wet nose = good for dogs). A wet nose is better at trapping odors, hence the purpose of the philtrum.