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TIL NASA once raided a Denny's as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a moon rock the size of a rice grain

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gkOD TIL a New Jersey politician was indicted for accepting $360,000 in bribes. The politician went so far to avoid his conviction that he faked his own death by friends saying he swallowed pain pills before a scuba dive and ‘never resurfaced’. He was found 2 years later and arrested while scuba diving.
OGZx1 TIL the Chinese developed a psychoactive narcotic consisting entirely of a mixture of inorganic minerals in about 200 CE. It was widely popular for about 800 years before being condemned and the recipe subsequently forgotten. This makes it the only fun reactional drug permanently lost to time.
jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.
PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
j9jp TIL that the AVERAGE male is stronger than 99.9% of women (from an actual scientific study)