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TIL Utah law requires the state to maintain a White Collar Criminal registry to protect its citizens against affinity fraud.

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R7Lr8 TIL Kevin Tunell killed Susan Herzog in a DUI. Part of his sentence was to send a check every week to Susan's parents. The check would be made out to Susan for $1 and he would send it every Friday for 18 years. Susan, was 18 when she was killed, on a Friday. In all, he would have to pay $936.
LWKv TIL a mysterious lady dressed with a headscarf like a Russian grandma, the Babushka Lady, was seen at the JFK assassination taking pictures of the event, and the FBI publicly asked for her to step forward with any pictures she took but she never came forward
R5ZG4 TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.
e6XJ TIL that the peak federal minimum wage in the US in 1968 and would be worth about $10.70 in today’s dollars. The current US minimum wage is $7.25.
nWywY TIL the emergency number in Mozambique is 119, or in other words: 911 backwards.