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TIL that Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, forced visiting officials to pay their respects by performing oral sex on her

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B7XW TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
VyMp TIL more than 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors in order to prevent people from fleeing with merchandise without paying for it.
neVQ9 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, assassinated federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979, the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. He had also been tried for murder two other times, and convicted for one of them.
D14YP TIL The Canadian military has developed a stealth snowmobile that is able to switch to "silent mode" for covert special ops missions in the Arctic
6EnoX TIL When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, it support a complex ecosystem around the corpse that can last for up to 50 years, drawing life from the otherwise lifeless depths.