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TIL Ron L. Hubbard awarded himself his PhD because he owned the university from which he graduated.

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xVdj0 TIL of Klaus Störtebeker, who legend has it after being captured asked to have released as many of his men as he could walk past after being beheaded. After the beheading, Störtebeker's body arose and walked past eleven men before the executioner tripped him with an outstretched foot.
b68P9 TIL the shrimp industry removes the eyes of female shrimp to increase reproduction, calling it "eyestalk ablation."
EgVjP TIL until 2019, the Verve was forced to give up all their royalties and music credit rights for their 1997 hit song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" due to copyright dispute with ABKCO Studios head Allen Klein over the band's sampling of the Rolling Stone's "The Last Time" in their music.
kOwLW TIL Germany controlled 80% of the world cocaine market in the 1920s
MeMn7 TIL that the FBI used fingerprints to pursue and arrest an innocent Oregon lawyer for the 2004 Madrid bombings, despite Spanish police insisting they were not a match