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TIL about the "Cash for Kids" scandal where two judges sent thousands of kids to jail in exchange for money from a for-profit detention centers.

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b9W0 TIL that in the novel Slumdog Millionaire is based on, the hero’s real goal is to get close enough to the game show host to assassinate him
VM6A8 TIL that in 430 B.C.: Athens, the earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia and Egypt, it crossed the Athenian walls as the Spartans laid siege. As much as two-thirds of the population died.
OOpe TIL that, according to an NYC medical examiner, “Your golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t. Your cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.”
0dkbM Today I learned that Tigger's iconic "TTFN" catchphrase was ad-libbed by Paul Winchell at the suggestion of his wife.
XLK6 TIL IBMs Super-Computer Watson invented the term ‘wang-bang’ when it did not know the correct name for a “boxing hit that lands below the belt” on a game of Jeopardy.