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TIL Balenciaga sells a $700 high heel Croc

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o5yR TIL the Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before the year 2000.
0dr8j TIL people are still learning Manchu language (used by the Chinese Qing empire) to study ancient Qing texts in Taiwan (but Manchus now speak Mandarin Chinese, and FYI the Chinese most people in the world now learn is a Manchu accent Chinese)
4kMeo TIL that in 1992 Detroit News compared a theoretical performance of Godzilla unleashed upon 1972 Detroit in Sim City to the outcome of two decades of rule by mayor Coleman Young and came to a conclusion that Detroit would be better off with the monster
GRp7 TIL Mormon founder Joseph Smith purchased Egyptian papyri from a traveling mummy exhibit. His translation of the text was entirely inaccurate but Mormons still regard this text to be true and as sacred as the Bible or Book of Mormon.
E1Od TIL a janitor invented flamin’ hot cheetos.