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TIL of Louis Wyman - Winner of 1974 New Hampshire Senate Election by just 2 votes, and served only 3 days while marred in an epic dispute then lost a rematch the next year convincingly

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makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
xVNm5 TIL that there's no proof that only advertising actually works. When tested, online advertising effect without selection effects, are statistically indistinguishable from zero.
5M8r TIL an image of Jesus Christ that appeared on the side of a South American grocery store after a rain storm attracted hundreds of visitors and was claimed to be able to heal the sick. It was later discovered to be a whitewashed Willie Nelson tour poster.
kOWgB TIL that archaeologists in India, found though carbon dating, a chariot that dates back to bronze age (Approx 4000 BC). This suggests that Europeans and Indo-Iranians were two separate groups (albeit of a common origin - Proto-Afroasiatic) and challenges the Aryan Invasion Theory
b6BDZ TIL Samoa switch from driving on the right, to driving on the left in 2009