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TIL the trial for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire cheating scandal (where the winner was accused of hearing answers from a series of coughs) had to be suspended due to a cough outbreak in the courtroom

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j6A8j TIL of Thomas “Shang” Draper, a crime lord in late 1800s NYC who ran a prostitution house with removable panels on the walls, making it easy for him and his associates to rob clients.
rN4Wx TIL Britain's consent was required for America's nuclear bombing of Japan, due to a treaty on nuclear research during WWII
N75PE TIL: The average person can see around 1 million colors but tetrachromats, people with a fourth cone, can perceive around 100 million
Meb4W TIL Hookworms were responsible for giving the American South the notorious stereotype of being stupid and lazy
PvZV TIL of the Lavabit case, where the FBI used loopholes and exploits to force surveillance into a secure email service: “since the ‘inspection’ of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.”