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TIL that in 2008 a conman named Bill Jakob swindled the small town of Gerald , Missouri & tricked the police department into thinking he was an FBI Agent and doing drug busts. After he was caught, the town was sued for $7.25M and Brad Pitt’s production company thought about making this into a movie

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kXLB TIL that a town in Italy banned people from keeping goldfish in bowls, because the structure of the bowl “distorts the goldfish’s view of reality”