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TIL that the Lockheed Scandal caused Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to be arrested

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VMeBk TIL Thomas Jefferson sent a giant moose carcass to Paris to prove that America’s animals were bigger than Europe’s
jN49E TIL that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. 200 million Christians (10 percent of the global total) are socially disadvantaged, harassed or actively oppressed for their beliefs
xblo TIL that in 1957, the BBC aired an April Fools segment showing a family harvesting spaghetti from the family spaghetti tree. When viewers asked how they could grow their own, they were told to place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.
PYDgw TIL the large Hadron Collider has had such bad luck with accidents and animals randomly breaking it that some scientists have hypothesized it's being sabotaged from the future to stop us from destroying the universe.
wK16 TIL that Annie Oakley, famous sharp shooter, was falsely reported to have been arrested for cocaine use. She then filed 55 lawsuits against accuser(s), and won 54/55.