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TIL after journalist Paulette Cooper wrote an article criticizing the Church of Scientology, they tried to get her committed to a psychiatric ward by writing her name and number on street walls, subscribing her to pornographic mail lists, and faking bomb threats with her stationary and fingerprints.

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QJKyp TIL Henry Heinz deliberately put his ketchup in clear glass bottles which was uncommon due to a lack of food safety standards. unethical companies used colored bottles to hide shoddy product and he worked with a chemist who went on to find foods containing gypsum, brick dust, borax, formaldehyde etc
xBlo TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.
yKOJ TIL that fun.’s “We Are Young” was the first song by a multimember band to top the Billboard 100 since Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” in 2002
7P4L TIL that in 2005, Jeanna Giese became the first human being to survive rabies
wonL8 TIL shoulders are a muscle (yes don’t judge me 💀)