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TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.

R7a96 TIL Renowned Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is sceptical of the mental-health establishment and pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of incorrectly classifying millions as mentally ill out of self-interest and greed
AlvB TIL Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin, passed on the project to another developer in 2010 and has since disappeared. No one knows who he is or where he went.
LRGr TIL Chuck Yeager (first man to officially break the sound barrier) as a fighter pilot in WW2 downed five enemy aircraft in a single mission - Two of these kills were scored without firing a single shot.
yZxv TIL that 29 days after the Titanic sank, there was a film made about the Titanic. It featured an actress who was actually on the Titanic and survived. By the end, she was so traumatized by reliving the experience, she had a mental breakdown and never acted again.
b5PZ TIL that the TV show ‘The Golden Girls’ began as a joke. To promote 'Miami Vice’ to advertisers, NBC in 1984 put on a skit about the nonexistent 'Miami Nice’, about retirees in Florida playing cards. Network executive Warren Littlefield, watching the audience laugh, liked the idea of such a sitcom.