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TIL Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a guy from murder charges. Outtake footage of an episode taking place at Dodgers stadium showed the accused in the crowd, some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder.

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9YBwM TIL at the 2018 Berlin Marathon Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge set an official world record for running the marathon of 2:01:39. This is less time than it would take to watch Hamilton on Disney+ (2hr 40m).
X0pRk TIL Trix removed artificial coloring from it's cereal but reversed course because people complained
neWmG TIL that there exists a space nation named 'Asgardia', which recently launched its maiden satellite.
YpQ1P TIL of the Massacre of St George's Fields 1768, where British troops fired on demonstrators who protested against the jailing of John Wilkes who severely criticised the King, killing 7 which led to multiple days of rioting and the threat of the abdication of the monarchy.
loEWA TIL that Ibn Sina or Avicenna is widely considered to be the “Father of modern Medicine”. His book “The Canon of Medicine” published in 1025 became the standard textbook of medicine and remained a medical authority for centuries in the Medieval Europe and the Islamic world