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0dwK1 TIL of Petra Williams a woman who catfished her niece Marisa online to teach her a lesson on dangers of social media. Marisa brought strange men home she met online. Turns out Marisa was actively looking for someone to murder the family and asked her aunt's fake persona to do it for her.
E5dX TIL Ronald Reagan carried the card containing nuclear launch codes with him in his pockets; after his attempted assassination, the card was found lying in one of his shoes outside the Emergency Room, unsecured.
PQLg TIL The Dubai Mall is the most popular place on earth, with 80 million visitors in the last 12 months.
wAJ6 TIL that the sloppy handwriting of doctors kills more than 7,000 people annually. Preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually
OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes