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TIL that a company knowingly sold dangerous breaker panels that were installed in tons of U.S. homes, including mine. They still cause fires. Check your breaker panel!

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YpEWB TIL about Self-plagiarism, when you reuse portion of your own work without acknowledging that you're doing so or citing the original work.
1OOW TIL that NATO founded a secret organisation which would stay behind and fight a guerrilla war in case of a Soviet invasion. This same organisation was linked to multiple terrorist attacks throughout Europe.
bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
6EGnm TIL of Bill Werbeniuk, a big drinking Canadian Snooker player . He drank 43 pints of lager in a drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair. After Sinclair passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say “I’m away to the bar now for a proper drink”
mxbDp TIL when Fatima Othman, a disabled street beggar, died in an abandoned car in Beirut, she was found to be carrying 5 million Lebanese ounds in cash and a deposit book showing more than $1 million in savings.