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TIL that in 2007 BBC journalist Alan Yentob was caught out for having clips of himself nodding inserted into interviews on a TV show he fronted to make it appear that he had conducted them instead of other journalists

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gjw9 TIL that cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean every year
rN0py TIL that Fortuna, North Dakota has the latest sunset time in the contiguous USA. With the sun setting at 10:05 PM local time during summer solstice.
8eG7X TIL that there is a town under water in the state of Maine because a greedy power company flooded it for their own use and when not all homeowners agreed to sell, they flooded it anyway.