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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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161O4 TIL that the song “I Can't Dance” by Genesis was a parody of Levi’s blue jeans commercials, particularly those featuring male models who "could not dance or talk but could only walk in their jeans".
PYwXJ TIL that Dark Energy is calculated to make up 67% of the known universe, while Dark Matter makes up a further 27%, while what we can actually see and measure, conventional matter, makes up less than 5% of our universe. "Dark Energy" is really a placeholder for "we don't know what this is."
KO104 TIL about the Body Worlds exhibit in London, where they preserve bodies via plastination so you can see muscles, veins and more
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5a9R TIL the reason behind spiral stairs being clockwise: In medieval times, they were designed this way in castles, so that attackers running up the stairs had their sword-arm near the center column, while the defenders had more room to swing their sword.