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TIL that Japan’s Imperial line has Korean roots

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4XlWa TIL after author James Frey was caught fabricating parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, Random House offered purchasers of the book a refund. To get this refund, they had to send in page 163 of their book & a sworn statement that they purchased it under the assumption that it was a memoir.
R7E6l TIL During the "cash for clunkers" program of 2009, the government provided CARFAX vehicle identification numbers (VIN) of the 700,000 clunkers that consumers turned in at dealerships. By law, these cars must have their engines taken out and destroyed, and the rest of the metal scrapped.
4XrQR TIL: the infamous fleeing of "a million Vietnamese from communism" in 1954 was actually the result of a CIA propaganda campaign of "God has gone South"
0dgAj TIL that Staci Keenan, who played the daughter in the 80s sitcom My Two Dads, got her law degree and is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County
nepkG TIL Former Manson Family member Barbara Hoyt, was poisoned by a hamburger with several doses of LSD in it. This was meant to prevent her from testifying in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. The plan backfired when she survived. After the attempt to silence her, her reticence disappeared.