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TIL in 2004, an assistant high school principal in Michigan tried to frame a student by planting pot in his locker, then calling police to do a locker search. When no drugs were found, he laughingly told police what he had done. He later resigned and became the subject of a criminal probe

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EggOP TIL the Ute people of Utah used to use fossilized trilobites as amulets to protect against bullets and diphtheria, and they correctly identified them as a marine creature.
ZnOo TIL that the world’s largest brothel, with 500 rooms, was built in Seattle in 1910. It was so scandalous that the mayor lost his job, and the building became the ordinary Lester Apartments. It was destroyed 40 years later when an air force bomber crashed into it.
kV64 TIL that there’s a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely free of oxygen. Containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier it rusts coloring the water red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!
gMA7W TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.
Lad9 TIL Cold fusion is still being researched, but the researchers currently working in the field complain of a chronic lack of funding and fear of being ridiculed by their colleagues