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TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence

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kJVLB TIL Costco sells more than 100 million hot dogs a year. In 2015 it sold four times as many as are sold in all the major league baseball stadiums combined.
nAwY TIL: Between 1975 and 2008, the number of products in the average supermarket swelled from an average of 8,948 to almost 47,000
x8Q1 [TIL] Pumpernickle means “devil’s fart” in the Westphalia dialect of German.
GVrN TIL that in the early 1900s oyster fishermen in Narragansett Bay tried to eliminate starfish that were preying on their oysters. Whenever they encountered starfish, they chopped them up with their knives and threw them back into the water. As a result, the sea star population increased explosively.
xV5m7 TIL that the Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands, had, despite living on, obviously, islands, no knowledge of constructing boats or navigating them. This led to the development of seven different cultures on the seven Canary Islands.