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TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the "black market" for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.

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WkPWL TIL that Ida Wood wife of the owner of the New York Daily News in the early 1900's was a recluse at the Herald Square Hotel for decades & paid all her bills in cash & never let anyone in until the day her sister died. That's when people found out she was VERY wealthy & wasn't who she said she was.
Wk1Bo TIL it would take at least 500 survivors to repopulate the earth (without creating major issues because of inbreeding) after an apocalypse
6DWY TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilites, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.
Bovx TIL that the FDIC strongly encourages mandatory two-week paid vacations for bankers because it is difficult to conceal embezzlement for that long while away from work
wGNY TIL that in 1984 the Key West Police Department was declared a criminal enterprise.