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TIL that Payless set up a fake luxury store called "Palessi" to prank social media influencers.

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oBew8 TIL that when George Washington died in 1799, the British Royal Navy was ordered to lower their flags to half mast. The London Morning Chronicle opined that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.
Rrl7 TIL The United States is the only country in the world where property owners own the rights to the underground resources beneath their property
wLP4J TIL Chicago mobster Sam DeStefano loaned money at interest rates of 25% by week to very high-risk debtors such as drug addicts, in order to torture them in his cellar when they defaulted
loPbr TIL that Hugh Thompson Jr. ordered his own crew to fire upon friendly soldiers if they wouldn’t stop shooting civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
xV1JD TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room he pointed to the fake client. The real defendant was found not guilty