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TIL about the “small penis rule” - an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits

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VrjG TIL American Nimitz-class aircraft carriers can cruise continuously at maximum speed for 25 years before needing to be refueled.
vPR6R TIL about John Buettner-Janusch, a professor that went to jail twice; first for for manufacturing LSD, and second time for trying to poison the judge
BgMYK TIL that the rapper Rick Ross was previously a correctional officer
A8mo TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.
16d TIL During the New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots a prisoners head exploded after a blow torch was used to burn out his eyes