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TIL BBC News 24 mistakenly interviewed Guy Goma, a job applicant, instead of technology journalist Guy Kewney. The incident became a famous BBC blooper.

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1aVdX TIL L.S.U. economists examined Louisiana's juvenile court records from 1996 to 2012 and discovered that when LSU lost football games it was expected to win, judges issued harsher sentences in the week following the loss.
ZgdY TIL Coca Cola supported the apartheid
p8L1O TIL: The famous Curb Your Enthusiasm murder exoneration case ended up not using the footage as the defense. Time of day didn’t correlate, but cell phone location data provided the needed alibi.
wLQJJ TIL: There is a thing as "smoking jacket" which is worn to prevent the tobacco smell from sticking on your clothes.
X9Dk TIL that in 1976, after two U.S. Army Officers were killed by North Korean soldiers while tree trimming in the Joint Security Area, America and South Korea responded with “Operation Paul Bunyan” in which they brought a 813 man team, attack helicopters and fighter jets to chop the tree down.