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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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WkEjN TIL that when Tom Green won a Golden Rasberry Award for "Freddy Got Fingered", he showed up in a white cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, told the crowd he wanted to win the award, then pulled out and played a harmonica until security dragged him offstage.
GAQjQ TIL Ulysses S. Grant met with Susan B. Anthony while President in 1872 to discuss the possibility of women's suffrage. Although he was unable to get them the vote, Grant did succeed in expanding women's rights including in the workforce, appointing thousands of female Postmasters across the country.
J1JBV TIL There is a misconception that elephants think people look cute and harmless. Elephants have produced an evolutionary hard wiring that causes them to treat humans the way that they would other big predators, like lions
awkdN TIL Goodfellas and My Blue Heaven are about both about the same mobster - Henry Hill.
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