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TIL a woman in Utah kept her dead husband in a freezer for ten years so she could collect his veteran's benefits. He left a notarized note saying she hadn't killed him.

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grLeL TIL: That in 1970, Lula Cora Hood, a single mother of four in Illinois, vanished after a family argument. Decades later, a skeleton found in 1996 was thought to be hers. However, in 2011, 84-year-old Lula was discovered alive in Jacksonville, Florida.
4yxN TIL that a 2012 paper found evidence of systematic electronic vote rigging in the 2008 US General Election and 2012 Republican Primaries
eoQg TIL That Ohio issues “Scarlet Letter Plates” to people who are given limited driving privileges because they were convicted of a DUI.
yMKa TIL a woman was awarded $988,000 in 1986 after claiming a CAT scan took away her psychic powers.
kOmr1 TIL there were over 1 million native French speakers in Louisiana in 1968; today Louisiana French is considered an endangered language.