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TIL the 2009 stimulus bill passed to mitigate the financial crisis included a powerful independent oversight board that scrutinized every dime spent, and perhaps as a result, it produced remarkably low levels of fraud and abuse

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vJyL TIL of the Yellow Fleet, 15 ships trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 years as a result of hostilities between Egypt and Israel. Over time they formed a micronation, a yacht club and staged the Bitter Lake Olympic Games.
kjom TIL East St. Louis, Illinois is not only one of the most violent cities in the United States, but it consistently ranks among the world’s most dangerous cities. In 2014 the murder rate of the City was higher than that of Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world.
x6mMw TIL the CIA operated a number of gaming sites, including a star wars related one, that were used to communicate with assets
XXrX TIL of Dr. Hawley Crippen, an unfaithful husband who was executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife Cora, after parts of a decomposed body were found in his cellar. Crippen claimed she had left him for another man and moved away. In 2007, DNA evidence indicated that the body was not Cora’s.
yQALp TIL about Terry A. Davis, creator of the free operating software Temple OS. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early 20's, Davis created the software because he stated that God commanded him to. He was able to finish most of the software by himself before his untimely death in 2018.