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TIL that L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible Navy officer who was fired after the ship he commanded accidentally attacked Mexico. His ship was considered “jinxed” and eventually collided with another ship, burst into flames and sank.

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nWp5r TIL that "Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25" is a myth that is not based in science, only misunderstandings. Our brains continue to mature with time, and our brains never stop changing. Individual differences mean some of are more mature than others, at an earlier age.
b9pLa TIL, in 1948, a man wore 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach in the night. The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.
kJAEB TIL that Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, planned for the character of Plankton to only appear in a few episodes, but Plankton's voice actor, Doug Lawrence, loved Plankton so much that he wrote his own ideas for the character, and Plankton became a major character.
nWJmY TIL about Jesse James biopic made in 1927. His light-hearted portrayal was found inaccurate by those who still remembered him as a vicious murderer, and the movie failed.
p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane