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TIL Eating boogers can be good for your teeth.

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5Mln TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren’t. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.
Lp9m TIL in 2007 a court awarded the rights to OJ Simpson’s “If I Did It” book to the Goldman family. It was renamed “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer”, with the “If” reduced in size to make it appear that the title was “I Did It”
m1DxY TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota
LQXm9 TIL about Detective Frank Salerno who had the unprecedented task of not only bringing the infamous serial killer Richard Ramirez to justice in 1985, but was also instrumental in The Hillside Stranglers arrests in 1979.
XEl7Q TIL: 364 Idaho inmates hacked hand-held prison tablets and collectively transferred $225,000 worth of credits to themselves