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TIL In 1985, a pregnant woman was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball

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4W4N TIL that the Baby Boomers were nicknamed the “Me Generation” due to their perceived narcissism.
R7g09 TIL that the worst building collapse in history killed 1100 in 2013. The building owner had bribed many official and investigators to conceal the many irregularities during construction. In the resulting trial, the owner was given just six months bail.
xVbn1 TIL about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry. He was a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later, earning him a place in history as one of the pioneers of astronautics.
OGa7 TIL the Egyptian king Psamitk I led an experiment to discover the origin of all languages by isolating two new-born babies, then waited for them to begin speaking unaided. It was agreed Phrygian was the original language of Mankind.
o9R7 TIL that a fake Wikipedia article about a fictional war (“Upper Peninsula War”) went unnoticed for years.