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TIL through magnetic imaging resonance you can determine the intentions of another person before they make an action. Real world Minority Report

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5ZK8 TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.
mggE TIL the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was constructed less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World
4rKX TIL Paul Boyd, the animator of the show “Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy” was shot dead by a police officer because he (Paul) was having a breakdown related to his bipolar disorder
e6kE TIL that once the Babylonians could predict when solar eclipses would occur, they would install a substitute king during this period. As they believed that these eclipses were an evil omen, this substitute king could be blamed. (He usually was killed after - of course making the omen true.)
16ak8 TIL Some teen thieves were made to dress up as Flintstones characters as punishment for stealing a Flintmobile replica from a comic book store