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TIL Steve Jobs had a high school GPA of 2.65

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7Ejx TIL the longest prison sentence ever given was 384,912 years long for failing to deliver mail.
Bene TIL Robert Moses, the extremely powerful New York City urban planner, hated the idea of poor people lowering the tone at the seaside, so he built low bridges over his parkways to ensure that only cars, not buses, could make the trip.
VjZ TIL that a couple who was having sex in a SkyDome (now know as Rogers Center) hotel room was televised on the scoreboard Jumbotron during a baseball game.
6EwXl TIL that in Australia, from late August to late October(during their mating season), Magpies attack anything, including dogs and cats, that gets close to their territory/nest. It is known as “Magpie Swooping Season”
LkbgZ TIL more people climbed Mt Everest than the number of people who ran a mile in under 4 minutes