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TIL that scientists from L'Aquila, Italy, were sentenced to six years in prison for failing to warn of an earthquake, despite lacking any reliable means to do so.

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woGkP [TIL]The FBI is struggling to find good hackers because of marijuana rules
KYDQR TIL astronaut John Young risked the U.S space mission Gemini 3 by smuggling a beef sandwich into space which was breaking up and creating crumbs and that could have caused damage to the spacecraft or the equipment.
e0Kx5 TIL Chris Morris, from the IT Crowd, has been fired from many jobs due to the many pranks he has pulled during his radio career, including filling one of the radio booths with helium, causing the newsreader to report the news in an extremely high-pitched voice.
DQ4gV TIL that women, frequently called "ale wives" were the "brewers" of ale and beer for centuries, and the church specifically taught they would be the only people left behind by Christ when he freed the damned from hell.
M7460 TIL in the late 60’s when checking into hotels, Paul and Linda McCartney would use the aliases Mr and Mrs. Ramone to avoid Beatlemania and the press. When Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) read about this, he called his band “The Ramones”, and it became one of the most legendary punk bands of all time