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TIL there’s a man in Henderson, NV who used DNA testing and research to discover that as an infant, he was wrongly “returned” to a different family whose son had been kidnapped from the hospital. He’s still looking for his real twin sister who also disappeared.

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BGkk TIL Conan O'Brien and friends dressed like construction workers and started tore up a street. Conan called city police and reported his crime. Then he called the state police and reported that college students were dressed as police and harassing construction workers. Both forces arrive to arrest each other.
W7GP8 TIL that General Patton as a young officer competed in the 1912 Olympics in Pentathlon where he came in 5th, mostly because he insisted on using his own .38 service revolver for the shooting event and left such large holes in the target that it could not be determined if all of the rounds had hit.
GYrEN TIL: The man behind "Wood on the bed" meme was a deacon, minor league football player, and died of a heart attack over 6 years ago
b9waE TIL: A US businessman in dispute with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) paid his $3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins.
AyRw TIL Sesame Street has an Incarceration Tool Kit which assists parents and family with explaining prison to children