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TIL that a fake software company duped over 200K people with fake university degrees in a elaborate scheme employing 2000 people

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Jpo8 TIL in 1964, riots broke out in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that police beat a pregnant black woman to death. Over 200 businesses were looted or destroyed. Most of those businesses never returned, which lead to much of North Philadelphia turning into the crime-ridden slum we see today.
M7bPa TIL Mormons believe the Garden of Eden is in Missouri, and that Jesus will resurrect there!
wor6P TIL that most jokes about Germany are just about Bavaria. That is because the american occupation zone wa in bavaria and they mostly witnessed their culture and assumed that all of Germany is like Bavaria.
OG9na TIL that Genetics account for up to 65 percent of tooth decay or other dental predispositions.
1mo4 TIL that the lyrics from The Byrds’ 1965 song ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, in the King James Bible.