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TIL that Ashley Madison — a dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses — was sued for $21 million by a former employee who says she damaged her wrists while typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women.

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rRdKx TIL Elvis Presley was an official captain of the Memphis Police Department and even had dashboard police lights for his cars. He was known for pulling people over and lecturing them on safety before giving them an autograph and letting them go.
6E9LJ TIL an Iowa woman was ticketed for mailing her neighbor a quart of cow poop. The neighbors have had a running dispute over the woman's dog barking.
yex8 TIL that today, March 21st, was proclaimed Afghanistan Day by Ronald Reagan because “To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom.”
KYlQw TIL Josef Mangele aka The Angel of Death, who was the chief Nazi Dr at Auschwitz, died of old age in Brazil in 1979
mGvx TIL a “Red Herring” logical fallacy is a point in an argument that misleads or distracts from the issue at hand. E.g. “If the world’s 15 largest cargo ships don’t burn the low grade fuel, someone will.” Doesn’t make the low grade fuel any more reasonable for the ships to burn it.