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TIL Richard Scrushy, charged with masterminding $2.7 billion fraud case, came up with a novel strategy: "[play] the religion card" and become a televangelist to curry favor with jurors (the trial was held in Alabama). He was acquitted of all charges.

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B7LK TIL that the sabre-tooth squirrel featured in the 2002 film Ice Age was fictional… until a real one was discovered in 2011.
rRRYW TIL that in 1966, when asked by a Senate subcommittee member about the dangers of LSD, Timothy Leary stated: "Sir, the motor car is dangerous if used improperly...Human stupidity and ignorance is the only danger human beings face in this world." The Senator he was replying to was Ted Kennedy.
W7ggN TIL Saint Catherine was tortured on a wheel by the Emperor Maxentius for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. The wheel broke and Catherine was eventually beheaded instead. Her martyrdom is remembered in the firework called the 'Catherine Wheel'.
b6kdN TIL that the US government stores 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in underground caves in Missouri
lkQ1 TIL that redheads don’t feel pain the same way as other people. They are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, but more sensitive to thermal pain.