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TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018

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PYW0V TIL the rate of alcohol consumption has drastically increased in the United States; between 2002 and 2013, overall drinking increased by 11 percent. The findings suggest "a public health crisis" - problems with alcohol increased by nearly 50 percent as well.
6KmJ TIL: A Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he can land the plane blind with curtained cockpit windows.The plane crashed at the landing strip and came to rest upside down killing 70 people.
x67Lw TIL that the Vietnam draft lottery ended up not being truly random because the guy didn't mix the balls in the urn sufficiently
lAeN TIL a broken humerus of a giant fossil sea turtle was found in New Jersey in 1849. In 2012, another broken humerus was discovered, which was found out to be the other half of the exact same bone found 163 years prior.
WknL8 TIL Samuel L Jackson stuttered as a kid and still uses “motherf*cker” to get through a speech block