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TIL there is something called the “CSI effect”. Because of television crime dramas, jurors have unrealistic expectations of forensic science and investigation techniques

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wpj8 TIL parents at a school in Idaho called police on a book giveaway event for an award-winning young adult novel banned from the school curriculum because it was “anti-christian”
4Ze5 TIL the second Shah of Iran built a marble slide for his underground baths that was specifically designed for women in his harem to use to slide “into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.”
8BGV TIL that in The Godfather, Sonny Corleone cheats on his wife because she cannot handle his abnormally large penis. nsfw
pYNYZ TIL about Stu Ungar, who preferred Blackjack, but beat the champ so bad he started playing poker and still is a joint best 3 time winner of the World Series.
wLDO8 TIL this 90s Coke ad campaign in Australia was cancelled after sexual imagery was noticed in the ice cubes