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TIL that Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.

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e0jGE TIL A study on theft has indicated that most thieves are active only for a short period of time and make very little money at it. In fact, theft looks not so much like a way of getting free stuff or money as a stage some people experience in adolescence — and most grow out of it.
oweE TIL there was an illegal crematorium disguised as a ceramics plant. It was discovered when a man calling in to complain about the smell said,“Don’t tell me they’re not burning bodies. I was at the ovens at Auschwitz.”
EgZnp TIL in 1933 'stereo records' invented by Alan Dower Blumlein. Sadly, Blumlein did not live to see the lasting impact his many innovations had. He was killed on 7 June 1942, when the Halifax bomber he was flying in crashed during a trial of the H2S radar system. He was 38.
GAGr4 TIL about The Acerra Brothers' Traveling Professional Baseball Club, a baseball team consisting entirely of brothers
jBlX TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.