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TIL Douglas Gene Williams, an American critic of polygraph tests, was convicted after becoming a target of a federal sting operation to teach agents how to conceal crime

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OoNbL TIL That the phrase 'flying saucer' used as a substitute for an UFO is the result of a mistaken newspaper report in 1947 of the first well-known UFO sighting by the business mogul Kenneth Arnold who said the speeding aerial was crescent-shaped but moved "like saucers skipping on water".
v1XQr TIL shipping children through parcel post service was initially legal in the United States. The U.S. Post Office banned the practice in 1920.
rkd0 TIL: 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry.
D1VMY TIL that Forrest Fenn’s infamous treasure chest has been found.
W1eB TIL that the strongest vagina belongs to a middle-ages Russian mom, who is able to lift 30 pounds with only her vaginal sphincter muscles