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TIL that seedless watermelons are not genetically engineered.

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BrayD TIL a law school grad sued her alma mater, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, because she felt they made false statements that she'd be able to get a good job after acquiring a law degree from them. She lost the case.
9YM0X TIL About the Asoh defence, a term for frank acceptance of blame when you are at full fault. It’s named after Kohei Asoh, an airplane pilot who landed his plane in the waters of San Francisco, just shy of the runway. When asked about why he did this, he said: “As you Americans say, I F**cked up.”
VMgYZ TIL of 102-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand who held the 100-plus category one-hour record of 24 kilometres and 251 metres until he broke his own record at the age of 102 years riding 26 kilometers and 927 metres in one hour.
4QLg TIL that in WW2 during calls to see if a safe house was convenient to visit the person answering would reply “no, I’m too busy.” If the safe house had been captured and taken over they would reply “yes, come on over.”
Db0P TIL following the attacks of 9/11, executives were unsure if it was too soon to air SNL. Lorne Michaels asked the mayor of NYC “can we be funny?” and the Mayor replied “why start now?”