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TIL - In an effort to solve the extremely high corruption rate problem, Georgia (the country) once fired it’s ENTIRE police force. It turned out that the police WERE the problem and the move actually worked, as the country’s corruption almost vanished in the following three months with no police.

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pYPJO TIL In 1985, Director Paul Feig won $29,000 on the game show "The $29,000 Pyramid" which allowed him to quit his day job and jumpstart a career in filmmaking
neADB TIL: A Korean programmer made a ransomware program as a joke, requiring the victim to get a high score in the Japanese bullet hell shooter "Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object" on the highest difficulty to get their files back.
DVJP TIL that the correct plural for octopus is either ‘octopuses’ or 'octopodes’, NOT 'octopi’. Octopus is derived from Greek, not Latin.
4Xgw TIL that with inflation, the original Star Wars made the equivalent of $1,428,519,200 today
M7OOK TIL that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city's board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.