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TIL that a woman created a fake facebook profile of a teenage girl and sent a friend request to her husband, then used transcripts of their conversations to get him arrested. He was freed and all charges were dropped when he produced a notarized affidavit, proving he knew it was her all along.

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69vom TIL Pope John Paul II loved Doc Martens boots so much he gave 100 pairs to Swiss Guards in the Vatican.
W707B TIL A Japanese engineer survived both the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombs. During the Hiroshima blast, he threw himself into a ditch just 3 kilometers from ground 0. Three days later, his boss in Nagasaki was calling him crazy for saying that a bomb had destroyed Hiroshima when Nakazaki was hit.
OoQ7L TIL that since 2005, Avon, Ohio has hosted an annual duct tape festival dedicated to celebrating "duct tape, its enthusiasts, and its wacky and fun uses." The event features duct tape sculptures, a duct tape fashion show, and a parade of giant floats constructed using duct tape.
kdym TIL in 1623, the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard designed what was probably the first mechanical digital computer. Schickard died of bubonic plague soon, but his machine was replicated later and is likely to have worked in spite of some imperfections.
ZENp TIL Madonna leaked a fake version of her album to pirates where every song was a loop of her saying “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Then a hacker posted the real songs on her own site for everyone to download.