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TIL of the Teapot Dome Scandal: Between 1921-1923 during Harden's presidency, the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in exchange for $200k worth of liberty bonds. He became the first Cabinet secretary to go to prison.

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PJZO TIL Shell sold “No Pest Strips” that were highly carcinogenic, even causing one death. They eventually pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it in Mexico so they could still make money. Shell executive: “Speaking as a human being, sure you feel bad. But I’m not being paid to be a human being.”
JDeQ TIL When Indian reservations started to earn big money from casinos, they began expelling their own members by the thousands to increase the payout for those who remained.
m1xBx TIL that opossums don’t eat ticks. Stomach content studies have yielded no evidence for ticks.
wgK7 TIL Famed molecular biologist James Watson put his Nobel Prize up for auction in 2014 due to financial hardships. It sold for $4.1 million, and was promptly returned to him by the buyer.
XE8Yj TIL: The landscape design where a grassy incline slopes downward to a retaining wall to contain livestock or as barrier that doesn't spoil the view, is called a Ha-Ha.