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TIL of the existence of "scholarly publishing stings", in which academics submit absurd research papers to scholarly journals to test if the editors are actually paying attention. Sometimes, these are accepted and published.

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LB9V TIL: After WWII, the British sold off captured Enigma machines to third world countries, who still believed it to be secure, so that they could spy on them.
yQNOJ TIL that the Chinese government's official found out that ice cubes found at Chinese KFC chain were 12 times dirtier than toilet water-and 19 times the national bacteria level standard
P1PbE TIL that at the opening ceremonies to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the event organizers made the mistake of shooting off a cannon after they had released hundreds of pigeons. While the cannon shot blanks, the sound of the shot scared the birds so much that they defecated on the athletes below.
Z8ELY TIL Honeybees can learn basic math such as subtraction and addition
E1pXW TIL in 2016 hunters found a mountain lion with an extra set of teeth and whiskers on the side of its head