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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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N7XoQ TIL that despite its useful properties, the dandelion has grown to be regarded as a weed, as a result of the rise of lawn culture and marketing by pesticide companies.
jN0Xn TIL that 3 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Navy had submarines off the coast of San Francisco ready for a Christmas Day attack on the Golden Gate Bridge. One single torpedo was fired and was found buried on Marshall Beach next to the bridge in 1946
wWKM TIL that in 2010, a spanish woman claimed ownership of the sun and tried to charge everyone who used it a fee.
J1O9Q TIL over 50% of the world's population is brown-eyed. Almost 75% of Icelanders have blue eyes.
QBkM TIL chocolate magnate Milton Hershey launched a ‘Great Building Campaign’ during the Great Depression with the aim of employing more people. When he was told that a steam shovel being used on a project did the work of 40 men, he instructed his foreman: “Take them off. Hire 40 men.”