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TIL Darius McCollum, a New Yorker diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, has been arrested over 30 times for impersonating transit employees, stealing trains and buses, and driving their routes - complete with making safety announcements and passenger stops.

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Zpx8D TIL famous psychologist B.F.Skinner trained street pigeons to guide rockets by training them to recognize the pattern of a target, and to peck when they saw the target. As the pigeons pecked, cables harnessed to each one’s head would mechanically steer the missile until it finally reached its mark.
a8LOb TIL The Spanish were the first European settlers in the Florida Keys, and upon unearthing a burial mound on one of the southernmost keys, they named it Caya Hueso, Bone Island, a name later Anglicized into Key West. Spain officially relinquished control of Florida to the United States in 1821.
J1mWQ TIL Popes, at various times, have married, been adulterers, had mistresses, fathered illegitimate children, ordered the murders of rivals, been financially corrupt, started wars and even encouraged English Catholics to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I
DQnpp TIL that fossilized lightning or fulgurite exisits and is formed when powerful lightning bolts discharge through the ground, which melts and fuses any nearby soil, sand, rock and organic debris into a singular metallic-looking lump.
XEnkP TIL about Brigham Young, a Mormon who stated that "the idea of plural marriage" made him "desire the grave.". He went on to have fifty-five wives and fifty-six children.