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TIL That Nigerian Prince e-mail scams are intentionally obvious to MOST people

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JPbm TIL: The single largest infiltration of the U.S. government ever was done by The Church of Scientology
bm1a TIL Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, was convicted of fraud for glass-looking in 1826. He used one of the same seer stones that he used for glass-looking when he dictated the Book of Mormon.
dlJZ TIL the black-footed cat, Africa’s smallest feline predator, has been known to kill sheep by hanging on to their throats until they have bitten through the jugular. Their maximum size is roughly 5 lbs.
rGBe TIL that if a person dies with credit card debt, banks usually try to get paid by contacting the dead person’s family and claim that they ‘inherited’ the debt, which is not true.
0wE4p TIL Devonte Hart, the African American child famously shown hugging a police officer during the Ferguson Riots, was killed when his adoptive parents purposely drove off a 100 foot cliff.