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TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims

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j688R TIL After being discontinued in the late 90s, Oreo Minis were re-released in 2000 along with the redesigned 2001 Dodge Caravan as part of a promotional tie-in with DaimlerChrysler
PYPaE TIL: A newer study in 2017 discovered the cost of raising a child to 17 in the US averages $233,610 with rural children costing $193,020 and Urban NE costing $264,090 the same study also showed that each additional child is cheaper due to bulk buying and hand me downs.
R5W94 TIL that Cartoon Network used to sponsor the Orange Arrows F1 racing team back in the year 2000
Y7jaW TIL optical telegraphs (at the turn of the 19th century) had many features now commonplace in modern networks, including control characters, routing, error control, flow control, message priority, and symbol rate control.
KOMea TIL during Prohibition, federal agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith disguised themselves as grave-diggers, football players, Russian women, rabbis, judges, and plumbers (among many others). Together, they seized more than 5 million bottles of illicit booze and made 4,932 arrests.