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TIL of Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for the story of a heroin-addicted four-year old. It was later discovered that the entire story was fabricated, and the award was rescinded.

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mxVGM TIL: Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
Bywd TIL when JAL Flight 2 landed in San Francisco Bay short of the runway, captain Kohei Asoh told investigators, “As you Americans say, I fucked up.” Today the “Asoh defense” is hailed by corporate strategists as one of the most effective public relations strategies.
dDKgB TIL Rihanna was the first successful celebrity in English UK Law history to win a court case against a company that unauthorisedly used her image on merchandise.
jNLXM TIL about the story when Ayrton Senna crashed because the wall moved
9nRB TIL the Tiananmen Square tank man during 1989 was not actual stopping the tanks to go attack the protesters, the tanks were actually going back to their barracks because the massacre happened the day before.