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TIL that in 1971, burglars were able to steal records from the FBI simply by leaving a note on the front door of the Delaware office that said “Please don’t lock this door tonight”

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kJG0e TIL that during the wahabi movement the word wahabi was not used in its early days the early Wahabis called themselves either salafis sunni or muwahidun meaning oneness and they were and are influenced by hanbali school of thought
4k9lo TIL in 2012, the FDA recorded 5 cases of people being burned after their sunscreen caught on fire. One instance happened after a person lit a cigarette, another came near a candle, and one near a grill. One cause of this was a sunscreen's defective spray valve which dispensed more than was typical.
wd58 TIL During prohibition, Maryland’s Governor Albert C. Richie refused to enforce the law. As a result, Maryland remained the only “wet” state in the union.
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
W7VK8 TIL: FDA's Shocking Drug Approval Loopholes Discovered the FDA's drug approval loopholes in "Truth is an Illusion" by Aretha Gonyora. "Accelerated approval" & "breakthrough therapy" designations can lead to insufficient safety testing—troubling when lives are at stake.