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TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”

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oe48 TIL the founder of Pringles is buried inside of a Pringles can.
9VVG TIL that the very first time DNA fingerprinting evidence was used in a criminal case, its use cleared a teenage suspect of a murder he had confessed to under intense grilling.
oRnWr TIL a Denver motel owner secretly recorded hotel guests under the auspices of performing a quasi-scientific study on guests' sexual acts.
p75N TIL in 2004, an activist from The Yes Men falsely claiming to represent Dow Chemicals was interviewed by BBC, claiming Dow had agreed to a $12 billion settlement for victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India chemical disaster (in which 3,000 peopl died). Dow lost $2 billion in the ensuing stock selloff.
a6MZ TIL there is a bacteria that literately excretes pure gold