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TIL of the massacre of black sharecroppers that led the Supreme Court to curb the racial disparities of the justice system

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W75gX TIL In 1962 commodities broker Tino De Angelis, bilked 51 banks out of over $180 million ($1.85 billion today) in what became known as the salad oil scandal. Part of his scheme involved mostly filling his storage tanks with water so that there was only a little oil on top in case of inspection.
8eGob TIL “In Germany there is a derogatory term ‘sitzpinkler’ for a man who sits down to pee. It means he’s kind of a wuss --Physicists probe urination 'splashback' problem
4OEo TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate
Ooe64 TIL: Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with boiling vessels allowing them to make tea.
PY1kg TIL in 2003, the crew of a Chinese submarine died suddenly at sea and the sub drifted on its own for 10 days. Nobody knew anything was wrong until a fishing boat spotted the periscope.