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TIL that over 8 years ago Sean Hannity agreed to be waterboarded to prove that it isn’t torture. He still hasn’t done it.

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Lald TIL by the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.
D19jP TIL that mathematicians have proved a majority-rule democracy can be forced to vote in favor of any set of policies by constructing a series of intermediate policy sets, each of which a majority of voters will prefer to the preceding policy set.
Ok1R TIL a National Geographic photographer (Arctic specialist) felt “true love” for, and nurtured by, a 1000 lb. leopard seal that could “kill you in an instant” He spent 4 days in the water with her while she continually tried to feed him penguins. (On the link story starts around 51 minutes in)
OK11 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!
b6PNQ TIL in 1963 a gem heist occurred in the US every 32 seconds on average which totaled $41 million worth of insured precious and semiprecious stones. In the mid-1960s, an estimated 3.5 million diamonds of one third of a carat or more were sold annually in the US which was "well short of demand."