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TIL, what a horrifying place the world is.
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TIL that the reason the New York Mets still pay Bobby Bonilla $1.19 Million every year on July 1st is related to the Bernie Madoff Investment Scandal.
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TIL That Leo Fender, founder of the Fender Electric Guitar Company, couldn’t play guitar and had no desire to learn.
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TIL of Wouter Basson, aka 'Dr Death', former head of the South Africa Secret Services’ biological and chemical program ‘Project Coast’ from 1981 to 1995, that introduced drugs into SA to chemically suppress the black population. Charged but acquitted of human rights violations, including murder.
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TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
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TIL "chucking" is an illegal bowling action in the sport of cricket when a bowler straightens the bowling arm when delivering the ball, but after biomechanical testing showed that all bowlers flex their extended arms to some degree, rules were then changed.