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TIL up to a quarter of California smog originates in China

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Awxo TIL Martin Luther King’s doctoral thesis stole heavily from another dissertation - 45% of the first half and 21% of the second half of King’s thesis was plagiarized but his degree was not revoked
4EKg TIL that investigators missed incriminating Google searches done on Casey Anthony’s computer - including “fool-proof suffication [sic]” - because they checked her Internet Explorer history but ignored Firefox.
dwDd TIL the award for 10 consecutive kills with a shotgun in Halo 3 was titled “Cheneymania!” before it was changed to “Open Season!”
0dP5L TIL a remote northern Quebec mining town has a 1.3km long, 5 storey apartment building that serves as a windbreak for the rest of town and lets residents stay indoors all winter
DQOav TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century sword-fighting, bisexual opera singer who lived a colorful & storied life. She once wounded a man in a duel & after nursing him back to health took him as a lover. Another time she set a fire in a convent to fake the death of a nun who she had an affair with