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TIL in 1993 Bob Knight talked about recruiting Ivan Renko, a fake player he'd created to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Though Renko didn't exist, several services listed him as a prospect with in-depth descriptions of his potential. Some "experts" even claimed to see film of him

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nnM9 TIL the plot of the pilot episode of the show “The Lone Gunmen”, a spinoff of the X-Files, featured 3 conspiracy theorists thwarting a secret government plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center and blame it on foreign interests in order to boost defense spending, it aired march 2001.
Oomma TIL that since 1956 the US Air Force trains falcons. They have 8 main falcons, Ace, Apollo, Cairo, Karena, Nova, Oblio, Zeus, and Ziva
vPDML TIL about "swimming pool filter-induced transrectal evisceration", i.e. when people (usually children) have their intestines sucked-out of their ass by swimming pool drains
Oo547 TIL: In 1855 the mayor of Los Angeles, Stephen Foster, convinced a mob to not kill an accused murderer, but to try him in a court of law. When the accused man was acquitted, the mayor resigned and led a lynch mob to kill the man. He was re-elected a year later.
WnZ9 TIL that an anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore that he had recently visited Japan, where “they have neither pigs nor Jews.” In response, Montefiore said that they should both go there so that it will have one of each.