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TIL about the Tri-State Crematory scandal. Nearly three hundred and fifty bodies that had been consigned to the crematory for proper disposition were discovered to have never been cremated

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PvZV TIL of the Lavabit case, where the FBI used loopholes and exploits to force surveillance into a secure email service: “since the ‘inspection’ of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.”
DQ1nJ TIL Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" is a cover originally released in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy. The time between both recordings was 42 years, but it has been 51 years since the 1971 release of Zeppelin's version.
KYoB4 TIL two Imperial Japanese soldiers competed to see who would be the first to decapitate 100 surrendered Chinese soldiers with a sword. (they were later executed for war crimes, having killed 106 and 105, respectively)
VBkjD TIL: In 1998, American, British and Canadian air forces all failed to shoot down a rogue weather balloon from Canada. The balloon was 25 storeys high and as wide as several football pitches. Two CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds into it off the coast of Newfoundland.
neXOP TIL Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark. The light is just too weak for human eyes to detect