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TIL that the "Dead Sea Scrolls" were discovered in the 1940s, a set of ancient scripts written by an independent Jewish sect called the Essences

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wLbPM TIL about the arrest of 16 y/o Daniel LaPlante, who, after a bad date, dug a burrow into the crawl space of the girl’s home & terrorized her for months as a spirit of her late mother then discovered dressed as a bride wielding a hatchet by her dad.
B5lb TIL A map making company in the 1930s placed a made up an hamlet (village) in their maps as a copyright trap. Years later the village started showing up on Rand McNally maps. The originator of the map sued for copyright infringement, but in fact locals and government had adopted and used the name.
woVP6 TIL Shari Lewis of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Lambchop fame co-wrote an episode of Star Trek.
OEZL TIL when Tiberius made it illegal to pay a prostitute with a coin that bore the image of the emperor, brothels began issuing Prostitute Tokens, with depictions of the sexual act on the front and the price on the reverse.
nWAo TIL In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which outlawed the private ownership of gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by American citizens, forcing them to sell these to the Federal Reserve.