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TIL Enron traders were so blatant in creating financial fraud schemes that they once booked a sale from an imaginary buyer named M.Yass. Some sources say, the purpose was to laugh at financial regulators

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b971Z TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.
W6vY TIL That according to Jayne Gackenbach,a psychologist, people who frequently play video games are more likely than non-gamers to have lucid dreams where they view themselves from outside their bodies;they were also better able to influence their dream worlds,as if controlling a video-game character.
6p0m TIL that a man got thrown off an American Airlines flight last year after flying into a rage over being wished “Merry Christmas.” The other passengers cheered and applauded when he got tossed.
d8Nw9 TIL that it is illegal for a person to defame, insult or threaten the royal family of Thailand, and if caught, can cost you 3 to 15 years PER COUNT of insult
wy47 TIL Pluto is so far away, that not only has it still not completed a full orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1930, it’s barely completed a third of its orbit. It won’t complete its first full orbit until 2178.