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TIL about disgraced German journalist Claas Relotius, who until 2018 completely fabricated stories about the US to stir up anti-American resentment

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LXvV TIL that a man bought a BMW for $1 because of a mistake on the bidding.
WkNvX TIL in the early 20th century, trains in the US were destroyed in staged head-on collisions in front of live audiences for entertainment. This ended in the 1930s as it was seen to be wasteful of old but otherwise useful locomotives at the height of the Great Depression.
awvDJ TIL: That in 1959 a Russian zoologist named Dmitri Belyaev started a investigation into domestication (using Foxes) that is basically ongoing to this day.
oBO6o TIL researchers are able to predict the long-term success of professional Wall Street investors by analyzing their genomes.
KYBvJ TIL of the concept of agnoiology - the study of ignorance