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MYZV TIL in ‘92, a doctor was accused of raping a woman while she was sedated in his office. He was cleared after DNA tests did not match. It was later discovered that he foiled the DNA test by implanting a tube of another man’s blood under his skin.
6EkEX TIL after rumors that Yellow No. 5 lowered sperm count, some people increased their consumption of Mountain Dew as a form of contraception.
gMBrW TIL Xi Jinping's dad, Xi Zhongxun, was the only high ranking CCP member who defended, albeit unsucessfully, massively popular liberal reformist Hu Yaobang from being removed from office by Deng Xiaoping. Hu's purge and death years later sparked the Tiananmen Square protests.
R55r9 TIL Osama bin Laden's mother-in-law collapsed and died of shock on news of his death
M7A7B TIL the Byzantine Emperor had an elite personal guard (The Varangians) composed of Norsemen, Rus, and Anglo-Saxons who emigrated to Constantinople.