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TIL that Lee County, Alabama sheriff’s office told people who had fallen behind on child support that they had won tickets to the Alabama/Auburn football game. Then arrested them when they came to collect their free tickets.

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j6A6Q TIL that they stopped putting missing children on milk cartons because the threat was largely overblown, was mostly ineffective, had no requirements for what missing meant, was emotionally disturbing to families, and was done mostly for the tax credits.
M0G7 TIL that the movie “Pootie Tang” (2001) was not only directed by Louis C.K. but was written by him as well.
9YOlr TIL Mozart and Salieri composed a cantata together. It was considered lost, but rediscovered in 2015 by a musicologist looking through archives.
l7gZB TIL of "Protected view" which is the legal requirement within urban planning to preserve the view of a specific place or historic building from another location. Like the the St Paul's Cathedral in London where high-rise development is restricted at certain sites if it would obstruct the view of it.
ojd7 TIL: In 1957, a luxury airliner mysteriously crashed in the Pacific while carrying multiple people with motive, means, and opportunity to cause the disaster. The mystery has been unsolved for almost 60 years.