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TIL the NCAA changed food rules to allow Division 1 athletes to have unlimited meals at school instead of just 3; and the change was probably due to UConn’s guard Shabazz Napier telling reporters he often “went to bed hungry.”

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DYJr TIL that Saddam Hussein, while held captive by US forces, was repeatedly forced to watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut”, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan
AD0Na TIL a teacher in South Carolina started a ‘Gentleman’s Club’ for more than 60 at-risk children to teach them important life lessons and social skills and support them so that they would grow up to become successful adults. He even provides donated jackets and ties to students who cannot afford them.
eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
W1J8 TIL that the only person to win the grand prize on the game show “Moment of Truth” answered the final question by admitting that she believed her polygamist father had had sex with a minor.
B77y TIL The hit song “Blinded by the Light” was written by and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, who made it by going through a rhyming dictionary and looking for rhymes and ended up being unsuccessful, but was covered by Manfred Man and became a #1 hit.