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TIL there is a whistle-blower known as Clare Francis (possibly a fake identity for multiple people) who is responsible for tipping off over 100 academic journals about suspected fraudulent research.

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JYjX4 TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the owner was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries for help, forced her way out of the yard and ran into the road and ‘played dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped and the pig led him to the trailer, he heard the woman and called 911.
lonn1 TIL in Louisiana and Oregon, a jury can convict a murder suspect with just a 10-2 vote. In Louisiana, this law came from Jim Crow. In Oregon, it's from anti-Semitism in the 30s.
4XNog Hangovers are actually more than a feeling, though — they're a measurable impairment. This morning-after feeling isn't so different from drunkenness, according to a new study.
wlEY TIL Charles Darwin suggested that the appendix may have been used for digesting leaves but, over the course of evolution, has degraded into nothing. This theory is supported by koala and horse appendixes which do just that.
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.