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TIL A missing first amendment “one Representative for every fifty thousand persons”, got lost due to a clerical error. Today we have over 700k people per Rep.

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6EvrJ TIL When a woman with breast implants is cremated, the implants will melt into "goo." It drips to the bottom of the furnace and needs to be cleaned up once cooled.
dDZQ7 TIL that Gordon Lightfoot's song, Sundown, was a cautionary tale about his onetime girlfriend, the backup singer Cathy Smith, who was later convicted in the overdose death of the comedy star John Belushi after she injected him with heroin and cocaine in 1982.
yeN8 TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarized His Research Papers, Doctoral Dissertation, and Speeches
R78v4 TIL Algeria has turned off its internet nationwide during high school exams in a bid to tackle cheating
kyg1 TIL about the Rosenhan experiment, in which a Stanford psychologist and his associates faked hallucinations in order to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals. They then acted normally. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and agree to take antipsychotic drugs in order to be released.