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TIL that one of the leading lights of the Gun Control movement had to withdraw his work from publication and had a prestigious national history award rescinded due to false, unethical and fraudulent research

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v1o7D TIL that in June of last year, a swan living in Manchester, England died of a broken heart when teenagers threw bricks at her nest and killed all but one of her unborn cygnets and drove off her mate due to stress
yQYka TIL that fishermen use kites and spiders' webs to catch needlefish (Solomon Islands)
GEPG TIL in 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.
vD48 TIL: In Michigan, you can double your food stamps by spending the money at farmers markets.
49lX TIL the Wizard of Oz filmmakers used a white horse and sponged it down with different colors of Jell-O crystals to create the “horse-of-a-different-color.” The horse made it difficult to film as it wanted to lick the crystals off itself.