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TIL Teller of Penn & Teller, known for being completely silent on stage, was once a high school language teacher.

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8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders
VB4k8 TIL 87 U.S. soldiers died in a Christmas flight crash in 1952 while heading home from the Korean War—and their story was so forgotten, it took 60 years for anyone to build them a memorial.
6EW9J TIL King Richard III's remains were discovered beneath a parking lot and, coincidentally, beneath a parking space marked with an "R" to indicate a reserved space.
b9bNZ TIL that the current primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, worked as an informant for the Polish secret police, reporting fellow churchmen, and used his association with them to climb the church's ranks.
dDrPK TIL the last successful Fair catch kick in the NFL was in 1976