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TIL The hacker that exposed the steubenville rapists could get more jail time than the rapists themselves

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8awoZ TIL that Roman gladiator fights were officiated by referees, and that one gladiator who died in combat even blamed the referee for his death on his tombstone, with the epitaph "Fate and the cunning treachery of [the referee] killed me."
oBlno TIL: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are not legally required to reveal in what countries their products are manufactured
m1K0x TIL in 1950 only 9 percent of American households had a television set, but by 1960 the figure had reached 90 percent.
xV7J0 TIL Spain's newest submarine was 75+ tons heavier than expected because someone put a decimal point in the wrong place. It could go down, but might not come up again.
4m8a TIL- NERF stands for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam