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TIL the very first case where John E Reid used his interrogation methods, which is widely used throughout North America today, got a false confession from a suspect for murder. Which later cost the state of Nebraska $500,000 after the real killer confessed.

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Brp5r TIL the eggs in Alien initially had a more vaginal appearance complete with an "inner and outer vulva". Producers worried that Catholic countries would ban the film, so Giger changed them so that "seen from above, they would form the cross that people in Catholic countries are so fond of looking at"
oRpeL TIL that Filet-O-Fish was created after a McDonald’s franchise owner complained about falling sales during the season of Lent
dk1B TIL: To produce a single jar of honey, foraging honey bees have to travel the equivalent of three times around the world.
N7N1J TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one).
J1gmB TIL former dictator of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov ordered the closure of all libraries outside the capital in the belief that all Turkmen are illiterate.