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TIL during the alcohol prohibition some moonshiners used to wear ‘cow shoes’ which left cow hoof prints rather than human footprints so they couldn’t be tracked.

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yQ7Yl TIL that some Klan members in Indiana were convinced that the Pope would be on a northbound train. More than a thousand people gathered as it arrived. The only person who got off was a corset salesman. They grilled him for half an hour before they were convinced that he wasn’t the Pope in disguise.
Z8aev TIL Tommy Lee Jones Really Hated Working With Jim Carrey while filming Batman Forever. Jim Carrey said hello to him during the set and Tommy Lee's response was "'I hate you. I really don't like you... I cannot sanction your buffoonery!"
XEkJ8 TIL in 2014 researchers in the U.k developed an app called, "Spider in da house", which helped identify house spiders. They discovered the peak month of spiders moving indoors is September and most are males seeking mates.
OVda TIL Donald Rumsfeld reported 2 Trillion dollars were missing from the federal defense budget on 9/10/2001. ($8000 for every american citizen) The next day the pentagon accounting office was incinerated, and many people researching the missing money were killed.
Rv1a TIL The UK release of Fallout changed all indications of the word “drug” to “chems” that would become the standard for the series since Fallout 3