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TIL that in 2019 an impostor managed to trick the U.S. General Services Administration into issuing him an official .gov internet domain using fake letterhead to impersonate officials from the town of Exeter, Rhode Island. He then registered the domain in Facebook’s law enforcement subpoena system.

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9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
Egaep TIL about Michael Servetus, a Spanish polymath who was the first European to correctly describe pulmonary circulation. After publicly rejecting Catholic orthodoxy and fleeing France for Geneva, he was denounced by John Calvin and burned for heresy by order of the city's governing council.
WklLB TIL the Disney company attempted to trademark the phrase "Dia De Los Muertos", the name of a holiday celebrated in Mexico.
j6lRQ TIL that two of the celebrated hero-bandits in Water Margin, one of China's Four Great Classical Novels, are a husband-and-wife innkeeper duo who drug travelers with spiked wine and turn them into meat buns. The novel treats their cannibal operation as morally neutral.
j69Vp TIL a small group of defense witnesses regularly testify against mainstream medical opinion in shaken baby cases over whether infants can be fatally injured through shaking alone