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TIL - That many people who get new, often free home’s through “Extreme Home Makeover” end up taking out second mortgages they can’t afford, and then lose their home.

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BrdBb TIL that August Busch IV, the former president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, killed his passenger in an accident when he was 19. Although there were empty beer cans scattered around and he fled the scene, no charges were filed. The urine sample was lost and the blood sample was 'mishandled'.
4xvX TIL In 1942, hundreds of skeletons were found around an obscure high altitude lake in India. The skeletons were the remains of a 9th century AD party killed by a freak hail storm.
DL7P TIL I learned that General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone Tire, Mack Trucks, and Phillips Petroleum were all convicted of monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines and its subsidiaries in an effort to eliminate the competing electric trolley car.
d8DOd TIL male fruit flies drink away pain of rejection. Males who had been rejected and who'd gotten lucky had the option of eating normal food or food spiked with alcohol. While the happy/lucky fruit flies had no preference, the rejected fruit flys were far more likely to eat the alcohol-infused food.
6ag8 TIL In 1987, a 19-year old West German named Matthias Rust landed a small plane in Red Square in Moscow. With a combination of luck and human error, he flew over 500 miles from Helsinki, evading the largest air defense system in the world. He told Soviet authorities he was on a peace mission.