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TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from two schools and went to prison for credit card fraud

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1aX7d TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.
X00WP TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. He ordered all possible pictures taken, and had Germans from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and bury the dead.
LOVm TIL that Mr. T was offered 75k USD to assassinate someone. His body guard reputation attracted strange offers and was frequently approached with odd commissions, which included: assassination, tracking runaway teenagers,and locating missing persons.
aZ5J TIL of the NYC “Pizza Principle” which is a historically accurate “economic law” reported by The New York Times where the price of a slice of pizza has matched the price of a subway ride. It has been successfully used to predict the increase of subway fare on multiple ocassions.
ZMKv TIL if your mom was stressed out while pregnant with you you’re more likely to have a psychological disorder.