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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…

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dDEK7 TIL Boeing pressured the US government to impose a 300% tariff on imports of Bombardier CSeries planes. The situation got bad enough that Canada filed a complaint at the WTO against the US. Eventually, Bombardier subsequently sold a 50.01% in the plane to Boeing's main competitor, Airbus, for $1.
Wk0WX TIL In 1955 Playboy published a story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. After many angry letters, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."
Wkoeo TIL that it is possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious – and even to have differing opinions.
XW98 TIL 1-3% of people are equipped with a mutated gene called hDEC2 which allows their body to get the rest it requires from just a few hours of sleep.
kOJKE TIL that America’s Oldest Private Detective Agency has been investigating China’s Fake Products