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TIL in 2014, a woman was held in jail for one month after police mistook sauce from a can of SpaghettiOs on a spoon in her purse for meth. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse

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Mel87 TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).
wo0RE TIL about The Socialist Fraternal Kiss, which was a greeting between communist leaders, involving an embrace and three alternating cheek kisses to symbolize solidarity. In exceptional cases of close personal or political bonds, the gesture involved kisses on the mouth instead of the cheeks.
mAgR TIL on the day of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, he had narrowly missed a previous attempt which had injured his men. He decided to visit them in hospital and his driver took a wrong turn and stopped a few metres away from the assassin who promptly shot the Archduke.
kOoj1 TIL in 1984, a pipe-fitter for a uranium core processing plant in Ohio was discovered in a processing furnace. At the time the plant was discovered dumping a massive amount of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Co-workers of the deceased worker suspected he was a whistleblower and was murdered.
pjQ TIL, Kurt Cobain overdosed on heroin, was injected with antidote by Courtney Love, the proceeded perform at a concert without telling anybody