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TIL about Rosie Ruiz. She was the "Winner" of the Boston Marathon in 1980 only to be found out that she cheated. She qualified by being a NY Marathon runner of which was found to be false as well. She was also convicted of fraud in 1982 and cocaine distribution in 1983.

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kJwOm TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.

b6k6a TIL that they ironically found a cancer killing molecule in the tobacco plant.

yVZkV TIL Breaking Bad aired just 2 years after Malcolm in the Middle ended. Bryan Cranston was playing a character named Hal in a sitcom, two years before playing a drug kingpin character in Breaking Bad.

QNP7a TIL The Vredefort crater in South Africa was created 2 billion years ago by an asteroid or comet striking Earth. The crater, which has since been eroded away, was around 180–300 km (100–200 miles) across when it was formed.

e0j5D TIL of the “White Declaration of Independence” and the violent overthrow of democratically elected officials in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898