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TIL sex traffickers have been known to implant their victims with RFID chips similar to the RFID chips implanted in pets that help identify pets if they are lost.

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DQ48J TIL In 2006, the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed what they claimed to be a training camp but actually turned out to be an orphanage
7g1P TIL in 1990 a sitcom aired called ‘Heil Honey I’m Home’ featuring fictionalized versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. It was cancelled after one episode.
mxMyx TIL of “Cow Tools,” a cartoon described as the most loathed Far Side strip ever, that confused so many readers the newspaper’s phones didn’t stop ringing for two days. The author, Gary Larson, issued a press release explaining the joke after receiving hundreds of letters.
GYyPG TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue