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TIL A&E star Billy the Exterminator joined the Air Force at age 19 intent on a career in law enforcement; however, his military entrance examination indicated that he had an aptitude for biology, which lead to his extermination career at an Air Base.

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awE19 TIL authorities use accidentally and/or criminally leaked data to track down tax evaders
VBA7B TIL that one of the main perpetrators of the Putumayo genocide escaped justice and continued to exploit the same tribes. Before the Putumayo border change in 1933, Miguel S. Loayza forced the migration of 6,719 natives in to Peru. More than half of them died. Loayza survived into his nineties.
Y7vJr TIL Kennedy's book, Profiles In Courage, was extremely sympathetic to the Deep South and the Lost Cause myth. He portrayed the South as the victims of the Civil War and Reconstruction while Northerners were portrayed as corrupt officials who exploited and ravaged the South.
gM4k7 TIL Jodi Arias avoided getting executed because of a single holdout on the jury. The holdout was a woman who didn't believe in 'revenge' and left the other 11 jurors enraged.
Rl1 TIL Cracker Barrel got in trouble for segregation…in 2004