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TIL in 1988 JFK conspiracy documentary was aired in UK. It was so inaccurate, the producer was officially censured by British Parliament.

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6LnW TIL of “spite houses,” buildings constructed solely to irritate and spite neighbors.
woDdP TIL that between 1996 and 2000, Peru’s government forcibly sterilised around 300,000 mostly Indigenous women under a population control program—many without informed consent or medical justification.
XEZpD TIL Vlad the Impaler once repelled an attempted Ottoman invasion by making a forest of wooden stakes piled high with Ottoman corpses. According to Chalkokondyles, a contemporary Greek historian, there were over 20,000 people in his "Forest of the Dead"
0dJ0N TIL In January 1996, Jimmy Buffett's airplane was shot at by Jamaican police, who believed the craft to be smuggling marijuana. The plane was carrying Buffett, Bono and his family. The Jamaican government acknowledged the mistake and apologized to Buffett, who penned the song "Jamaica Mistaica"
W7oWX TIL Astronomers have observed sunspots, or starspots, on other stars. A study tracked 56 starspots from a sample of more than 5,000 Sun-like stars