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TIL American TV show Bait Car unintentionally helped a car thief dismiss his charges. Cameras caught the arresting officer say "You watch TV. You know your rights and all that?” instead of properly reading the thief's Miranda rights, leading to evidence becoming unusable.

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rRj9e TIL Ross Perot is one of the most successful 3rd party presidential candidates, winning 19% of the popular vote as an independent in 1992. Active in issues relating to POWs in the Vietnam War, he orchestrated a daring rescue of two of his own employees who were taken hostage in Iran in 1979.
LkOB9 TIL: Because in 1971 15 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were heroin addicts, the government started operation Golden Flow which required soldiers to pass a drug test in order to return home.
OoDWL TIL after taking F. Scott Fitzgerald to the bathroom and checking the size of his penis, Ernest Hemingway reassured F. Scott Fitzgerald that his penis size was normal and he should confirm by checking the nude statues at the Louvre.
D8Be TIL that marines and the United States Marine Corps specifically can trace their heritage to their nations’ first privateers. As veteran marksmen who could pick off opposing forces from a moving ship, they evolved from boarders during pitched ship battles to advance raiders during naval invasions.
X0ABX TIL King Louis XI plotted to kill a court astrologer who correctly predicted a death in his court fearing he'd done it himself. Before giving his guards the signal he asked if he knew when he'd die and the astrologer responded "I shall die just three days before your Majesty." He lived a full life.