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TIL the Doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.

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vw7R TIL a New York man had his home taken from him, his life threatened by a judge and then ended up mysteriously dead from a head injury shortly after compiling the evidence of this…
PZPn TIL in July 2015, a boat fell victim to waves on Lake Havasu, Arizona, filled with water, and sank to the bottom. When the Search and Rescue team responded to recover the boat an hour later, they discovered a stowaway cat that was still alive inside the sunken-boat.
MDjB TIL that some vegans choose not to eat honey because they consider beekeeping to be slavery
8mQL TIL in 2014 a Greek woman was accidentally buried alive. She was found after a group of children heard screams coming from her grave.
awYkN TIL of Toregene Khatun, the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from 1241 to 1246. Never before, or since, has such a large empire been ruled by woman. During that time there were women on almost every highest positions in the empire. Surprisingly, none of them had been born Mongol.