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TIL that in Thailand, There is a program where prison inmates fight each other in combat sports where whoever wins gets a sentence reduction or even freedom

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E1onp TIL that Phil Hartman (Simpsons, Jingle all the Way) was, before his untimely-death, developing a live action movie for his beloved Simpsons character Troy McCLure. You might remember him from such educational videos as "Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly" and "Here Comes the Metric System!"
M77xB TIL evidence of the world’s oldest forest, dating back 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study published in Current Biology.
aVj0 TIL a new SNES game will be released in 2013
ENYX TIL William Beckford, at age 10, inherited a fortune and spent it on sailing the world with a cook, two dogs, 24 musicians, and a Spanish Dwarf.
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