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TIL: Lou Pearlman, manager of The Backstreet Boys, and N*SYNC, was running a ponzi scheme with money created by the bands, and shell corporations.

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kO6NW TIL Humans are psychologically hardwired to blame the victim. The “just-world bias” happens because our brains crave predictability, and as such, we tend to blame victims of unfairness rather than reject the comforting worldview suggesting that good will be rewarded and evil punished.
XEdmD TIL of the aptly named "Operation Torpedo" in which the FBI compromised 3 dark web pages by exploiting a flaw in the Tor browser and caught 19 owners of child pornography
b91pZ TIL There is a 2 foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors on the moon, which astronomers can use to measure the distance between earth and the moon extremely accurately.
oRR1E TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan
kbm1 TIL the US Navy shot down an Iranian passenger plane in 1988, killing all 290 people on board. The US government has never apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing.