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TIL that a Texas lawyer killed himself because Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting

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8elk4 TIL that it took several years for writer Bruce Rubin to sell the script to Jacob's Ladder, because it was "too metaphysical" and "Hollywood does not make ghost movies". Rubin would later write the screenplay for Ghost, a box office success that grossed over $500 million.
A71d TIL that THC (the main agent in marijuana) is legal in pill form in all 50 states, called Marinol.
Vg9B TIL the phrase “log in” is derived from entries made in ships’ logs, which are in turn derived from actual logs. [fixed]
0wByA TIL that the US fought a culture war against sagging pants during which at least one person was jailed and numerous others were fined, suspended, and "urkeled"
m1kgE TIL The Trojan Horse story likely never happened, and was instead a creative misunderstanding of an actual historical use of a siege engine.