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TIL that both OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong sat on Corporate Audit Boards

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yNQp TIL that a British soldier who fought in both World Wars was shot in the face, head, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
KYYna TIL that the only guests that attended the funeral of Spanish serial killer José Antonio Rodríguez Vega (who was killed after being stabbed 113 times by fellow inmates) were the gravediggers hired to bury him
4knoX TIL a Korean Air jet due to stop in Anchorage was almost shot down on Sept. 11 due to miscommunications.
VQ44 TIL George Lucas allowed the band members of ‘N SYNC to make a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in order to appease his daughters. The footage was then cut out of the final version of the film.
nWBYo TIL Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer fame) is a hobbyist programmer, who owns both a GitHub account and a Discord server.