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TIL - The marine whose story inspired A Few Good Men was murdered execution style and his killer was never caught.

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W7XOL TIL about the "Green Card Lottery" the first commercial computer spam campaign (Via Usenet) which was started by the now disbarred layer Laurence Canter and his wife in 1994.
BEVL TIL that Federal employees will go unpaid for an unknown amount of time if the US government shuts down next week. Except for members of Congress.
b9xYp TIL that most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam within 15 years of when Muhammad first started preaching publicly
PYoLL TIL Issac Newton was a firm believer in alchemy and studied for years to find a method to create the substance known as the Philosophers Stone, which could apparently turn base metals into gold.
WkeEY TIL that Kurt Gödel, an Austrian-American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel refused to eat food prepared by anyone else, as he was suffering from an obsessive fear of being poisoned