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TIL that a group of debt collecters in Erie, PA posed as sheriff deputies and create a fake courtroom to scare people into paying debts.

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VBA1D TIL in 2013, Italian surgeons split new residents into two laparoscopic surgery training groups. They found that the group that was ordered to play the Nintendo Wii for 1 hour a day/5days a week performed better on test surgeries than their non-gaming counterparts.
v6V8 TIL Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in the 1980s
LZE9 TIL The show Takeshi’s Castle aka MXC originally aired from 1986-1990 and the original presenters are now in their 70s
DQoGP TIL n 1953, during the Korean War, the U.S. government launched "Operation Moolah". The goal was to get North Korean pilots to defect and bring their planes with them. In exchange, the pilot would receive $50,000 cash and asylum in a non-Communist country. No pilots defected though.
8ePj8 Til- Before electricity, theatres would use calcium oxide (commonly known as quicklime) to illuminate the stage. This is where the phrase “In the limelight” comes from.