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TIL after the Portland Police Chief said drug suspects have "no right to privacy" regarding warrantless searches of their curbside trash, journalists took his trash and published what they found

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grXA4 TIL Vanna White had a miscarriage in 1992 shortly after an episode of Wheel of Fortune contained "Vanna's pregnant" as the answer to a puzzle.
neR07 TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.
pkoO TIL of Radithor, a health drink in the 1920s that contained radium and slowly killed its customers. But it didn’t cause a public health crisis because it could only be afforded by rich people (unlike cheaper, safer knockoffs)
4X8Oo TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy
VBpYG TIL there is a fish whose scientific name is Boops boops.