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TIL that the longest criminal trial in Canada was when the company responsible for Caillou committed major accounting fraud.

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YDJd TIL there was a ship that hit a shoal, then ran aground. Its lifeboat’s engine failed. The first ship that tried to help it also ran aground, then a rescue aircraft tried to land on the nearby coast but dug into the dirt. Four days later, it was fixed, took off, then crashed again 43 minutes later.
R59Yj TIL: Once when a journalist asked her if she was pregnant, then Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto responded "No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the prime minister, its my right to be fat if I want to."
4XLMN TIL when famous Japanese idol Yukiko Okada suddenly comitted suicide in 1986, many of her fans were so devastated that it resulted in numerous copycat suicides, the process has since been dubbed "Yukiko Syndrome"
JXBk TIL North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians learned that the KKK were holding a rally against them nearby. The Native Lumbees attacked at night, outnumbering the Klansman 5:1, and drove them off.
wLbL7 TIL that the fourth-place through eighth-place finishers in an Olympic final event do not receive medals, but they do get paper “Olympic diplomas.”