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TIL of “Benny’s Rules”, a complex, incorrect “mathematics” a student came up with that enabled him to pass math tests for years

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lJp5 TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
5YRLB TIL that there’s no plastic used in plastic surgery. The term comes from the Greek word “plastikus” which means “to form” or “to mold”.
ZpXBQ TIL that the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK received a number of complaints about the "Crazy Frog" commercial, due to viewers concerns that Crazy Frog "appeared to have a visible penis and scrotum"
OGLy6 TIL the Indian muntjack species went through several chromosome fusions, which caused it to become the vertebrate with the smallest number of chromosomes: 6 in the females and 7 in the males.
vPelr TIL that after two jets collided head-on at 35,000 ft, one of the jets continued flying for about an hour and was never seen again.