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TIL that originally Mr. T’s gold chains came from customers at the night club where he worked. People had either lost them or left them behind after a fight.

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aeK9 TIL that in 1987, a prison inmate, Ronnie Lee Gardner, broke a glass partition and knocked out the lights in the prison visiting area to have sex with a woman who was visiting him. The other inmates cheered and barricaded the doors. Gardner later claimed breaking the glass was an accident.
r0A4 TIL: On average, women outnumber men in college 3 to 2.
e0D0k TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."
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