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TIL president James Madison was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.

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1aeJr TIL Jason Derek Brown shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater. The FBI says he fled with $56,000. Brown resembles a surfer dude and bears such a striking resemblance to actor Sean Penn that the FBI twice mistakenly apprehended the actor’s body double.
9YN8G TIL in 1955, attempting to stand out as a journalist, Dan Rather did heroin and documented his experience.
epPdg TIL: In 2007 the New York Times stopped using Times New Roman font and started using Georgia font - a font created for computers in 1993 by Microsoft
Ypkrr TIL that Kirk Kerkorian, the richest person in Los Angeles, has dispensed more than $200 million and a school, and he has never allowed anything to be named in his honor
l7Ra TIL: Tom Hanks is too tall at 6'1" to be an astronaut. The maximum height for an astronaut is 6'0".