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2054

TIL: Homer Simpson Figured Out Higgs Boson 14 Years Before Scientists

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yQ4k8 TIL Somebody paid to have a banner flown through the sky reading out “Cheater” during the Walk of Fame ceremony of Food Network Star and Chef Bobby Flay after divorcing his wife due to a cheating scandal.
PplG TIL that when a homeless New Yorker dies and can’t be identified, he or she is buried using prison labor in an unmarked grave on an island filled with such mass graves.
4XDoo TIL In 2002, the FBI was forced to pay environmental activist Judi Bari $4 million dollars after they found her critically injured from a car bomb during an assassination attempt and then immediately arrested her by falsely claiming she had put the bomb inside her own car.
y7Lv TIL that four college students help trick the citizens of Brazil by making them think their money was worth more than it was, thus saving the country from it’s economic depression.
N44b TIL William Whipple, upon signing the Declaration of Independence, freed his slave believing he could not fight for liberty and own a slave.