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TIL in 2002 Iraq submitted a full 11,800 page report to the UN security council stating they had no WMDs, 8000 pages of which were secretly removed by US officials - the fact the report was incomplete was later used to justify the invasion of Iraq

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epNZb TIL Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, an American physician and Nobel Prize winner, was charged of child molestation, including that of the children brought home from research trips to live with him.
5V5e9 TIL Whitney Houston had a production company called BrownHouse, which produced films like The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls
oB9jR TIL Alcatraz was one of the only federal prisons at the time that allowed hot showers to deter prisoners from acclimating to cold water and escaping through the San Francisco Bay.
6EA4Z TIL A bunch of kids Died during the lychee season because they would eat nothing afterwards. Turns out, lychees contain a deadly toxin that kills if not taken with other food.
ANWBw TIL Grumman, the aerospace and defense corporation, also makes the ubiquitous United States Postal Service Truck