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TIL injuries from opening food packages hospitalize over 60,000 people a year

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XEa7E TIL in 1978 Ford Motor Company had to recall 1.5 million Ford Pintos for fuel tank design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to explosive fire if the car was rear ended at more than 20 MPH.
gM078 TIL the thousands of monkeys in the Lopburi province of Thailand are split in two gangs: temple and city monkeys. The monkeys rely on tourists for food but due to the lack of tourism, the monkeys are starving and have taken to waging large scale 'gang wars' over as little as a single banana.
kO1bm TIL about the forgery artist Wolfgang Beltracchi who, rather than copying existing artwork, created brand new pieces in the style of famous artists. His forgeries have sold for over $45 million dollars.
MGAV TIL there exists an image of Columbia space shuttle reentering atmosphere just before it disintegrated. It was snapped casually by people in Kirtland Air Force Base testing their tracking telescope.You can see debris stream out from left wing.
jpbN TIL that a woman in the UK was sent to three years in prison for wasting police time after reporting a sexual assault. This is despite the fact that “the police had documented the injuries to the back of her head and breasts, the black eye, the bleeding from her vagina.”