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TIL that in the ‘90’s, copies of “Lassie” VHS tapes were intercut with racy porn videos and distributed back around video stores in their original packaging

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6E7r8 TIL, In 1944 French pilot Jean Maridor rammed a V-1 bomb, sacrificing himself, once he realized it was going to hit a military field hospital
waJ7 TIL of the Mountains of Kong, a West African mountain range that was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.
e04n TIL that a man from Williamson County, Texas was jailed for 25 years for the brutal murder of his family while prosecutors withheld DNA evidence which proved him innocent. M. Morton is now free from jail and the prosecutors still hold their judiciary positions in the department
grWBD TIL that "The Art of Mathematics" is the best-selling book series in South Korea
9rE6 TIL: In 2013, 20% of all homicides in Seattle were committed by police.