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TIL the State of Louisiana sentences people to 13-20 years of Hard Labor for only nonviolent drug possession charges

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OGgVX In 1969, Alan Funt, the creator of the television prank show Candid Camera, was on board an airplane that got hijacked. His fellow passengers recognized him and refused to believe the hijacking was real. They were finally convinced after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Cuba.
XENEr TIL the blue liquid at the bottom of a porta potty was originally made with formaldehyde in order to deal with the smell. Nowadays more and more manufacturers are using enzymes and microbes that feed on odor-causing bacteria.
nW4Br TIL Wachovia Bank, a unit of Wells Fargo & Co, paid $160M in 2010 to settle drug money probe. The systematic failure by Wachovia to maintain effective anti-money laundering controls had led to more than $400B in unmonitored funds being channeled to accounts at the bank between 2004 & 2007.
pYM84 TIL four rivers named Mat, Ta, Po, and Ni merge to form the Mattaponi river.
xVVLk TIL Merle Hay died 100 years ago this month. likely the first American casualty of WW I.