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TIL that Aaron Swartz is dead for nothing.

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0xPA TIL Japan is home to a 105-year-old sprinter and he hopes to race Usain Bolt one day.
8WLX TIL of Scott E. Parazynski, the only person to have flown in space and summited Mount Everest. Parazynski flew five times in the Space Shuttle and conducted seven spacewalks. In 2008, he failed to summit Everest due to a severe back injury, but succeeded on his second try the next year.
VBkp0 TIL Pinky and the Brain was inspired by the peculiar personalities of two WB producers, Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton with interesting mannerisms that were incorporated into the characters
ZpEVB TIL the term "nacho" in reference to the snack was popularized outside Texas when football announcer Howard Cosell was served them during a game. To fill dead air, he talked about the snack and then started using the word to describe plays: "Did you see that run? That was a nacho run!"
J1Rek TIL: in 1906 a group of 500 students from Missouri State University demanded they be let into the Cole Bros. circus for $0.25 instead of $0.50. When they couldn't stay for the concert after the show they marched to the train yard ripped up rails and greased them so the train couldn't leave town.