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TIL: In 2006, a man was arrested at a Chicago airport because security guards thought he said his penis pump was a bomb. He had a strong accent and was whispering 'pump' as he didn't want his mother to hear.

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WkvpY TIL one of the chief executives of American Motors had a habit that every time he thought his salary and bonus was too high for a year, he would give the excess back to his company.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.
4XRVb TIL a Chinese man bought a corpse for 4,000 yuan and tried to fake his death in a car accident to avoid paying a debt. His scheme was found out after the body’s DNA did not match his family and it was discovered to belong to a woman.
R7bx7 TIL in 2009 a man dressed as Santa robbed a Tennessee bank claiming he needed the money to "pay his elves"
8aNlG TIL, FDR asked singer Eddie Cantor if he could get a million people to send in a dollar to support polio research. He replied that it would be easier to ask for dimes. By the end of the month, the White House had received 2.68 million dimes ($268k) and the March of Dimes began.