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TIL Detention Deputies located $1,090.00 in U.S. currency hidden in the rectum of a 26-year-old man after they apparently smelled marijuana in his car.

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yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.
KO6bJ TIL that there are four stages to learning a new skill: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.
OoAEX TIL that the element Cobalt gets its name from a trickster goblin of German folklore, the kobold, because when medieval miners discovered it and tried to smelt it thinking it was silver, it released toxic gasses they believed to be the goblin playing a trick on them.
X0pO6 TIL about Skeeter syndrome, a severe allergic reaction to mosquito (skeeter) bites
ADoPo TIL Star Trek's training exercise Kobayashi Maru has been used by computer security educators to teach students to think like an adversary, that by stepping outside the rules of the game one can redefine the game, and why you should teach your students to cheat.