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TIL of "yellow journalism" which present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines.

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kJnD5 TIL: Hawaii was in Oceania not in North America
Q8ad TIL that when Walter Tschinkel poured molten aluminium into ant nests, he got this.
l1Na TIL A cat survived the sinking of three separate ships in World War Two, earning its title as “Unsinkable Sam.”
WbaA TIL that a London couple kept a man from Nigeria as their slave for 24 years before he finally escaped. After their arrests they were sentenced to 6 years in prison.
b9QVE TIL that most of Sam Jones' lines in Flash Gordon were dubbed by another (unknown?) actor, after quitting before the movie was finished and that George Lucas had originally wanted to make it, but went to to film Star Wars instead, which also had a famously (deliberately, this time) dubbed actor. #20