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TIL in 2007 an FBI agent posing as AP reporter sent a fake article link to a 15 y/o suspected of bomb threats. A tracking tool revealed his location and helped the agents confirm his identity. This later resulted to lawsuits by the press against the FBI and led to a $145k settlement in 2014

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6EMXm TIL "Made In x" label originates from the Germans who took quality assurance seriously 133 years ago
d8Z7E TIL that bleachers are so named because, early on, the generally uncovered wooden boards were "bleached by the sun.”
enaJ TIL that the famous Vietnam execution photograph taken by Eddie Adams (a soldier pointing a pistol at what appears to be a civilian victim) is actually the execution of a murderer by a police/security officer
KXrw TIL that there are actually five Dwarf Planets in our Solar System.
l0Y5 TIL Michael Faraday, the brilliant scientist, had a speech impediment and was one day beaten by the headmaster for it in school, he left school that day never to return