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TIL a scientist from Utah used his obituary to confess that not only had he never graduated from college or got a Ph.D, but that he never even learned what Ph.D stood for.

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Z8YEY TIL that during the Gulf War, when faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers American forces decided to simply use combat earthmovers and bury the enemy soldiers alive
QNn16 TIL in the 1950s, the CIA exploited Filipino vampire myths to instill fear in villages, killing a man, marking him with bite wounds, and hanging him upside down. This was part of efforts to help elect Ramon Magsaysay, a U.S. backed president.
xvwB TIL after Nebraska passed a Safe Haven law meant to decrease the number of “dumpster babies,” people started abandoning their teenage children. One father abandoned 9 of his 10 kids.
kPrd TIL that 5 minutes before John McCain’s ship was set to leave Rio de Janeiro in 1957, he showed up in a gull-wing Mercedes driven by Brazil’s top model, who kissed him before he climbed aboard.
QDb9 TIL that a bartender from Oregon won $17.500 in the lottery after a customer tipped him with a lottery ticket. He tried to give it back but the customer let him have the money.