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TIL of Chamoy Thipyaso who holds the record for the longest non-life-imprisonment prison sentence of 141078 years. She received the sentence for involvement in a pyramid scheme worth an estimated $200 million to $301 million.

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awYNL TIL that while orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko, the Rosetta probe observed landslides, collapsing cliffs, as well as boulders tens of meters in size being thrown over 100 meters by violent geological activity.
jeZp TIL - Ted Turner, billionaire founder of CNN, created the TV series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
M7N4V TIL Anne Frank wrote four dirty jokes in her diary, which she later papered over so they weren’t discovered by researchers until 2018.
NXnee TIL about Ladera, an unincorporated Silicon Valley community that until 2021, "[forbid] residency by people 'other than those of the Caucasian or white race.'"