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TIL that despite 12 indictments and several convictions of high level officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, all perpetrators were either pardoned or had sentences overturned resulting in no prison time. The only person to go to jail was a minister who stole a street sign in protest.

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x6a71 TIL of the 1937 School Explosion in New London, Texas. 294 died, mostly students in Grades 5 thru 11. Although the richest independent school district in the U.S, to save money the school board put a leaky tap on an oil company's production residue gas line, leading to the explosion from a spark.
Qyr6 TIL the famous Bloop sound, once thought to come from an unknown marine animal, was recently attributed by NOAA to icebergs cracking.
0wVmy TIL that the Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, Texas, The Washington Football Team plays in Maryland, The San Francisco 49ers play in Santa Clara and both New York teams play in New Jersey
7rAnZ TIL In 1968, King Friday from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood wanted to build a wall to keep change out.
VZxD TIL that there is an area in the mid-Pacific ocean called White Shark Cafe where sharks travel to and loiter for no identified reason despite there being little food there and it being a sharks’ equivalent of a desert.