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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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EBrp TIL the US Air Force maintaines a team that logs and tracks space debris. Over 20,000 items, ball sized or larger, and 500K marble-sized pieces are being tracked. They’re traveling at 28,000 KMPH. A single speck of paint could cause extreme damage to spacecraft or kill an astronaut on a space walk.
yj0e TIL - If you wanted to buy a single rare Dutch tulip bulb in 1636, all it would cost you is: 2 lasts of wheat, 4 lasts of rye, 4 fat oxen, 8 fat swine, 12 fat sheep, 2 hogheads of wine, 4 turns of beer, 2 tons of butter, 1000lbs of cheese, a complete bed, a suit of clothes, & a silver drinking cup.
ANJan TIL Horse semen is the most expensive liquid
1aNnO TIL that the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie's initial cut was rated R, and Daphne and Velma's cleavage had to be digitally removed to get it down to a PG rating.
mmJv TIL: There’s a lizard whose mating behavior follows a Rock-Paper-Scissors evolutionary strategy. Males have 1 of 3 throat colors where orange beats blue, blue beats yellow, and yellow beats orange. For 4-5 years, one strategy dominates, after which the strategy that exploits its weakness takes over.