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TIL when Governor Len Small of Illinois was acquitted of embezzlement, eight of the jurors who made the decision received state jobs

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v44j TIL an engineer in the 1930’s apparently created a “rainmaking machine”, made it rain in several places and then disappeared without a trace
7yJr TIL the crew of a US destroyer threw potatoes at a surfaced Japanese submarine that was too close to attack. This distracted the submarine’s crew, allowing the destroyer to steam far enough away to shoot the submarine and sink it.
0dbJR TIL six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter in 2012 and sentenced to 6 years in jail for making inaccurate predictions about the L'Aquila earthquake which killed 309 people in 2009. They were later acquitted on appeal.
vpR7 TIL Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin & Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna 1913. They even walked in the same park and ate in the same coffeehouse.
lQg5 TIL that Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world (based on a corruption % index)