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TIL about someone who predicted a merger and brought the relevant domain and now wants to sell it and fund his education. He is now being sued.

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4Q6X TIL When Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was arrested in 1983 for possession of marijuana, his punishment was to write, produce and finance his own anti-drug PSA.
rRALo TIL that prior to British troops firing on civilians at the Boston Massacre in 1770, they were pelted with oyster shells, ice, stones, sticks, and beaten with clubs by an unruly mob. At the trial, the soldiers were successfully defended by none other than John Adams and all were acquitted of murder.
QJMLd TIL: Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.
JQgB TIL the inventor of the pool noodle never patented the idea and was later cut out by the company he worked with to manufacture it. That company now makes 70% of the world’s pool noodles.
Eg40o TIL about the Hocker Album, discovered in 2006, one of the only known photo albums providing irrefutable evidence that top nazi commanders were at Auschwitz.