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TIL Asia Carrera (porn star) was awarded a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University, where she majored in Japanese & Business and is a member of Mensa,with an IQ of 156.

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78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
yQRre TIL US pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for "Guantanamo Bay", but Cuba has only once cashed a check and only by mistake
pYJLZ TIL About Richard Brittain, The infamous author who wrote a fantasy book about a girl from university, coined the term 'benevolent stalker', and hit a young supermarket employee over the head with a wine bottle after she left him a bad review online
mxEEM TIL that on examining the brain of 111 deceased NFL players, 110 of them were found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) - a degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
d5nB TIL the Outer Space Treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the common heritage of mankind.