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TIL that in 2017, a U.S. Navy jet drew a "sky penis" with contrails over Seattle, resulting in media attention and a formal investigation.

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XEWWj TIL, animators who failed while working on other projects within Dreamworks, were often sent to work on Shrek. The reassignment was known as being "Shreked" and being sent to "the Gulag".
E1V4X TIL that lie detectors are a complete hoax, they don't work at all, but the police still use them. The police are aware that they don't work, but use them to get the defendants to plead guilty.
kQK4 TIL the dental drill was invented 9000 years ago, predating the wheel by 3500 years.
lgM7 TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room, he pointed to the fake client. The real client was found not guilty
mxK1p TIL: Bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the less deadly of the 2 options America considered to end the war: Alt was to invade Japan, costing millions of both American and Japanese lives, instead of over 200k Japanese lives lose from the bombs.