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TIL it is illegal in the US to broadcast a phone call on the radio unless all parties consent before recording. If your local morning show has a prank call, “birthday scam”, or “expose your cheating lover” segment, it’s 100% fake.

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nerr9 TIL that Eddie Tipton, an information-security director for the lottery, rigged the random number generator system and was able to tell what numbers would be drawn. He won jackpots for many friends and family members over several years and wasn't caught until he bought a lottery ticket worth $16.5m.
kJ0r1 TIL there has been only one spacewalk with more than two people, which was on the STS-49 space shuttle mission. Astronauts Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed an unscheduled spacewalk in order to capture a faulty satellite after several previous two-man attempts had failed.
DMbj TIL The United States attempted to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100,000,000
jNEnR TIL COPS was created in 1989 after the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike negatively impacted the entertainment industry and FOX needed a new material that wouldn't require union writers
781Ob TIL that in 2013, police divers in Custer County Oklahoma, found 6 bodies in two vehicles at the bottom of Foss lake. Three bodies in each car were identified as people who went missing in 1969 and 1970. Both cars were found to have gone off the road and into the lake. Ending a 45 year mystery.